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HUGH GUSTERSON | Publications
BOOKS AND EDITED VOLUMES
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forthcoming |
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Simulating
Armageddon: Weapons Scientists in the Second Nuclear Age.
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2005 |
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Why America's Top Pundits Are Wrong About the World. Co-edited with Catherine Besteman. University of California Press. |
| 2004 |
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People of the Bomb: Portraits of America's Nuclear Complex. University of Minnesota Press.
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| 1999 |
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(co-edited
with Jutta Weldes, Mark Laffey, & Robert Duvall) Cultures
of Insecurity: States, Communities,and the Production of Danger.
University of Minnesota Press. |
| 1998 |
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(Co-edited with Oleg Bukharin). SSRC-MacArthur Newsletter, Special Issue on Science, Technology, and International Security. |
| 1996 |
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Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War. University of California Press.
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ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
| Under Review |
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The Crisis at Los Alamos. Science. |
| In Press |
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A Public Audit of Colin Powell. Boston Review of Books. |
| In Press |
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Decoding the Debate on Frankenfood. In Banu Subramaniam, Elizabeth Hartmann, and Charles Zerner (eds.) Making Threaths: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties. |
| In Press |
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From the Charismatic to the Routine and the Virtual: The Art of Designing Weapons and Training Weapons Designers in the First and Second Nuclear Ages. In David Kaiser (ed.) Pedagogy and the Practice of Science (Cambridge: MIT Press). |
| 2005 |
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Response to Felix Moos. Anthropology Today 21(3):26. |
| 2005 |
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While you were sleeping (co-authored with Catherine Besteman). Anthropology Newsletter 46(4), April, p.31. |
| 2005 |
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The Seven Deadly Sins of Samuel Huntington. In Catherine Besteman and Hugh Gusterson (eds.) Why American Top Pundits Are Wrong About the World. University of California Press. |
| 2005 |
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The Weakest Link? Academic Dissent in the War on Terrorism. In Austin Sarat (ed.) Dissent in Dangerous Times. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. |
| 2004 |
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How Far Have We Travelled? Magic, Science and Religion Revisited. Anthopology Newsletter 45 (8), November, pp.7/11. |
| 2004 |
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Nuclear Tourism. Journal of Cultural Research. 8(1):23-31. |
| 2004 |
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If U.S. Dumps test Ban Treaty, China Will Rejoice, AND Lynne Cheney's Free Speech Blacklist. In Roberto Gonzales (ed) Anthropologists in the Public Sphere: Speaking Out of War Peace, and American Power. University of Texas Press, 117-120 and 247-251. |
| 2003 |
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Anthropology and the State: Consult or Contest? Anthropology Today 19 (3):25-26. |
| 2003 |
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The Death of the Authors of Death. In Mario Biagioli and Peter Galison (eds) Scientific Authorship: Credit and Intellectual Property in Science. New York: Routledge, pp. 281-307. |
2002
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American Ground Zero. GSC Quarterly, Fall. |
2002
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An Hour with Noam Chomsky. Interventions 4 (1) : 105-123. |
| 2001 |
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Elites: Anthropology of. International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences 7:4417-20. |
| 2001 |
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The McNamara Complex. Anthropological Quarterly 75 (1) : 171-7. |
| 2001 |
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Tall Tales and Deceptive Discourses. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November/December vol.57 (6) : 65-68. |
| 2001 |
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Comment on Kaja Finkler, "The Kin in the Gene: The Medicalization of Family and Kinship in American Society." Current Anthropology 42 (2) : 251-2. |
| 2001 |
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The Virtual Nuclear Weapons Laboratory in the New World Order. American Ethnologist 28 (1):417-437. |
| 2000 |
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How not
to Build a Radioactive Waste Incinerator. Science, Technology, and Human Values 25(3):332-351. |
| 1999 |
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[Anti]nuclear
Pilgrims. Anthropologiska Studier 62-63:61-66. |
| 1999 |
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Feminist
Militarism. Political and Legal Anthropology Review 22(2):17-26. |
| 1999 |
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Missing
the End of the Cold War in International Security. In Jutta
Weldes, Mark Laffey, Hugh Gusterson & Bud Duvall (eds.)
Cultures of Insecurity: States, Communities,
and the Production of Danger. University of Minnesota
Press, pp.319-345. |
| 1999 |
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Los Alamos:
A Summer Under Siege. Bulletin of Atomic Scientists 55(6):36-41. |
| 1999 |
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Presenting
The Creation: Dean Acheson and the Rhetorical Legitimation of
NATO. Alternatives 24:39-57. |
| 1999 |
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Nuclear
Weapons and the Other in the Western Imagination. Cultural
Anthropology 14(1):111-143. |
| 1998 |
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Reimagining
Russian Nuclear Weapons Scientists. Anthropology
of East Europe Review 16(1):27-30. |
| 1997 |
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Studying
Up Revisited. Political and Legal Anthropology Review 20 (1):114-119. |
| 1997 |
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Remembering
Hiroshima at a Nuclear Weapons Laboratory. In Laura Hein and
Mark Selden (eds.) Living with the Bomb: American and Japanese Cultural Conflicts in the Nuclear Age. M.E. Sharpe. |
| 1996 |
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Nuclear
Weapons Testing: Scientific Experiment as Political Ritual.
In Laura Nader (ed.), Naked Science: Anthropological Inquiry into Boundaries, Power, and Knowledge, pp. 131-147. New York:
Routledge. |
| 1996 |
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The Anthropology
of Science. The Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology (ed. David
Levinson and Melvin Ember), pp.66-68. Henry Holt Publishers. |
| 1995 |
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Report
on Research at an American Nuclear Weapons Laboratory.
Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki #2, pp.88-104.
(In Russian). |
| 1995 |
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Short
Circuit: Watching Television With a Nuclear Weapons Scientist.
In Chris Gray (ed.) The Cyborg Handbook, pp.107-118. New York:
Routledge. |
| 1995 |
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NIF-ty
Exercize Machine. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. 51 (5):
22-6. |
| 1995 |
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La Bombe
par Ceux Qui la Font (The Bomb by Those who Make it). In Maya
Todeschini (ed.) Hiroshima 50 ans: Japon-Amerique,
Memoires au Nucleaire. Paris: Autrement. (In French.
Published simultaneously in Japanese by JIJI Press, Tokyo). |
| 1995 |
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Becoming
a Weapons Scientist. In George Marcus (ed.) Technoscientific
Imaginaries: Conversations, Profiles, and Memoirs. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, pp. 255-274. |
| 1993 |
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Realism
and the International Order After the Cold War. Social Research
60 (2):279-300. |
| 1993 |
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Exploding
Anthropology's Canon in the World of the Bomb: Ethnographic
Writing on Militarism. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 22
(1):59-79. |
| 1992 |
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Comment:
A Historical Ethnography of a Scientific Anniversary in Molecular
Biology: The First Protein X-Ray Photo. Social Epistemology.
6 (4):373-9. |
| 1992 |
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Coming
of Age in a Weapons Lab: Culture, Tradition, and Change in the
House of the Bomb. The Sciences May/June:16-22. |
| 1991 |
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Nuclear
War, the Gulf War, and the Disappearing Body. Journal of Urban and Cultural Studies 2 (1):28-39. |
| 1991 |
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Endless
Escalation: The Cold War as Postmodern Narrative. Tikkun 6 (5):45-92. |
| 1991 |
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Keep Building
Those Bombs. New Scientist 132 (1790):30-33. |
| 1991 |
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The Peace
Dividend and the Cold War Narrative. In Robert B. Textor (ed.)
The Peace Dividend as a Cultural Concept,
Special Monograph Edition of Human Peace
9 (1-3):7-12. |
| 1991 |
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Doing Ethnography
in the Fields of the Bomb: Exploding Anthropology's Canon. Human Peace 8 (1):3-5. |
REVIEWS
| In Press |
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Review of Space in the Tropics: From Convicts to Rockets in French Guiana by Peter Refield. American Ethnologist. |
| 1998 |
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Review of Making PCR: A Story of Biotechnology by Paul Rabinow. Technology and Culture 39 :792-4. |
| 1998 |
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Review
of Secret Mesa: Inside the Los Alamos National
Laboratory by Jo Ann Shroyer. Science
281 (5373):53. |
| 1997 |
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Review
of Science and Technology in a Multicultural
World: The Cultural Politics of Facts and Artefacts by
David Hess. American Ethnologist
24(2):467-8. |
| 1997 |
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Review
of The Nuclear Peninsula by Francoise Zonabend.
American Ethnologist 24 (1):247. |
| 1995 |
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Review
of Tattoo, Torture, Mutilation and Adornment
by Frances Mascia-Lees and Patricia Sharpe (eds.) and Giving
the Body Its Due by Maxine Sheets-Johnstone (ed.). Medical
Anthropology Quarterly 9(4):513-515. |
| 1994 |
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Review
of Nuclear Summer: The Clash of Communities
at the Seneca Women's Peace Encampment by Louise Krasniewicz.
American Ethnologist 21 (4): 1061-2. |
| 1991 |
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Review
of At the Heart of the Bomb: The Dangerous
Allure of Weapons Work by Debra Rosenthal. Nuclear
Times 9 (2): 46-7. |
| 1990 |
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Review
of The Genocidal Mentality: Nazi Holocaust
and Nuclear Threat by Robert Jay Lifton and Eric Markussen.
Nuclear Texts and Contexts No. 5,
pp. 6-7. |
| 1989 |
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Review
of Symbolic Defense: The Cultural Significance
of the Strategic Defense Initiative by Edward Linenthal.
Nuclear Texts and Contexts No. 3,
pp. 3-4. |
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
| 2001 |
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Comment
on Kaja Finkler, "The Kin in the Gene: The Medicalization
of Family and Kinship in American Society." Current Anthropology
42 (2):251-2. |
| 1999 |
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"Comment:
Conversion" and "Comment: Research" in Security
and Survival: The Case for a Nuclear Weapons Convention
by Merav Datan and Alyn Ware (eds.). Cambridge, MA: International
Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, p.3-32 and p.3-37. |
| 1999 |
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Secrecy,
Authorship and Nuclear Weapons Scientists. In Judith Reppy (ed.)
Secrecy and Knowledge Production.
Occasional Paper of Peace Studies Program, Cornell University. |
| 1998 |
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Co-edited
with Oleg Bukharin). SSRC-MacArthur Newsletter,
Special Issue on Science, Technology, and International Security. |
| 1998 |
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(With
Babak Ashrafi) An Internet Experiment. Anthropology
Newsletter 39(2):19. |
| 1997 |
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Comment
on "Controlling Processes: Tracing the Dynamic Processes
of Power," by Laura Nader. Current Anthropology 38(5). |
| 1995 |
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Tales
of the City. Technology Review 98(6), pp.56-7. (Published in
Italian too). |
| 1995 |
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Border
Crossings and Transcultural Communication. In James W. Fernandez
and Milton B. Singer (eds.) The Conditions
of Reciprocal Understanding. The Center for International
Studies, University of Chicago, pp.88-96. |
| 1992 |
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Cultural
Studies and the Arms Race. SSRC-MacArthur
Newsletter 4:7-10. |
| 1991 |
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Testing
Times: A Nuclear Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War.
Ph.D. Dissertation at Stanford University |
| 1990 |
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Nuclear
Weapons Testing as a Ritual of Renewal. Center
Review (Center for Psychological Studies in the Nuclear
Age) 4 (1):7, 14. |
| 1989 |
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Environmental
Concerns at a Nuclear Weapons Laboratory. Center
Review (Center for Psychological Studies in the Nuclear
Age) (3) 2:2, 15. |
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
| 2001 |
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If
U.S. Dumps test Ban Treaty, China Will Rejoice. Los
Angeles Times, July 29, 2001, p.M6. |
| 2000 |
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Our
Missing Foreign Policy Debate. Livermore
Independent. November. |
| 2000 |
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The
Wen Ho Lee Case. Livermore Independent. September. |
| 2000 |
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Secrecy
and Security. San Francisco Chronicle,
June 29, A23. |
| 2000 |
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All
the Rhetoric About Espionage Can Undermine Our Real Security.
Boston Globe, June 19, A15 |
| 1999 |
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Summer
Postcard from Los Alamos, New Mexico. Livermore Independent,
September 22, p.1. |
| 1999 |
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Stockpile
Stewardship and Free Speech at the Labs. Livermore
Independent. |
| 1995 |
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On
the Anniversary of the Bombing of Hiroshima. Livermore
Independent, August. |
| 1995 |
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The
Nuclear Tourists: New Mexico Years After Nuclear Weapons
Appeared
on the Scene. Livermore Independent,
July 19, p.1. |
| 1995 |
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NIF:
Basic Science Research Project Disguised as Bomb Research. Livermore
Independent, March 8, p.1. |
| 1995 |
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Caring
About the New Russia. Livermore
Independent,
January. |
| 1992 |
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Health
and Environmental problems at Los Alamos, Livermore
Independent, May. |
| 1990 |
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1992
target for Next Nuclear Free Zone Attempt. Livermore
Independent, September 12, p.1. |
| 1990 |
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Cold
War End Means New Direction for Anti-Nuclear Group. Livermore
Independent, September 5, p.1. |
| 1990 |
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Will
End of Cold War Mean the End of the Lab? Livermore
Independent, August 29 |
| 1989 |
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Dialogue
Needed on Nuclear Future. Livermore
Independent, August 23. |
| 1987 |
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Transcendental
Celebration. Guardian (UK), August
26. |
| 1986 |
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A
Young Man's Exercize in Ritual on the High Seas. Guardian
(UK), August 19. |
| 1981 |
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Democrats
and the Freeze Movement. Oakland Tribune
, August 13. |
REPRINTED ARTICLES
| 2002 |
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Tall Tales
and Deceptive Discourses. Precis
XI (2) (Spring): 4-7. |
| 2000 |
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The Peace
Dividend and the Cold War Narrative. In Social
Justice: Anthropology, Peace, and Human Rights 1 (1-4):123-131. |
| 1995 |
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Exploding
Anthropology's Canon in the Field of the Bomb: Ethnographic
Writing on Militarism. in Rosanna Hertz and Jonathan Imber (eds.)
Studying Elites Using Qualitative Methods.
Sage Publications. |
| 1995 |
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Coming
of Age in a Weapons Lab. In Computer Studies:
Computers in Society. Brown and Benchmark Publishers. |
| 1991 |
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Orientalism
and the Arms Race: An Analysis of the Neo-Colonial Discourse
on Nuclear Non-Proliferation. Working Papers and Proceedings
of the Center for Psychosocial Studies, University of Chicago,
No. 47. |
AUDIO AND VISUAL MEDIA PRODUCTION
| 1988 |
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Star Wars:
A University Perspective. Stanford, CA: ASSU Films. (Script
Editor and Interviewer for documentary film). |
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