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Paratexts and the Commercial Promotion of Film Authorship: James Wan and Saw

Tyson Wils
December 2013
Contemporary Australian Filmmakers
Introduction This article discusses one way Malaysian-Australian James Wan (b. 1977-) (1) can be considered or constructed as an author. Wan is best known for the film Saw (2004), which he co-wrote with Leigh ...

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