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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.

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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
Elizabeth B. Dyer*
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University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania edyer@sas.upenn.edu
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African Studies Review , Volume 59 , Issue 3 , December 2016 , pp. 301 - 310
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