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- ↑ "Four Women | UCLA Film & Television Archive". www.cinema.ucla.edu.
- ↑ "May 2, 2017 – Saltwater Stories".
- ↑ "::cinenova catalogue:: detail for Four Women". www.cinenova.org.
- ↑ "Julie Dash | The HistoryMakers". www.thehistorymakers.org.
- ↑ Dozier, Ayanna (4 July 2017). "No happy returns: aesthetics, labor, and affect in Julie Dash's experimental short film, Four Women (1975)". Feminist Media Studies. 17 (4): 616–629. doi:10.1080/14680777.2017.1326561. S2CID 148678504.
- ↑ "Four Women | UCLA Film & Television Archive". www.cinema.ucla.edu.
- ↑ "Four Women". www.twn.org.
- ↑ "Brooklyn Museum: Julie Dash Film Marathon April 2017". www.brooklynmuseum.org.
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