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Research Article

All the (West)World’s a Stage: HBO’s Westworld as Metatext—Intertextuality, Genre, Seriality, Format

Pages 118-130 | Received 09 Aug 2023, Accepted 05 Sep 2023, Published online: 18 Dec 2023

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