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WHITEWASHED AFRICAN FILM SETS: TAYLOR SWIFT’S WILDEST DREAMS AND KING SOLOMON’S MINES - Joseph Kahn, director. Taylor Swift: Wildest Dreams. 2015. 4 minutes. English. World-Wide Release: Big Machine Records. - Compton Bennett and Andrew Marton, directors. King Solomon’s Mines. 1950. 103 minutes. English. U.S., U.K., Belgium, France, West Germany, Finland, Netherlands, Spain, Argentina: MGM.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 December 2016

Elizabeth B. Dyer*
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvaniaedyer@sas.upenn.edu

Abstract

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Type
FILM REVIEW ESSAYS
Copyright
Copyright © African Studies Association 2016 

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