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A SUCCESSFUL VETERAN TRAILER MAKER EXPLAINS HIS BUSINESS

Shaun Farrington is the founder and creative director of Zealot, a creative marketing company with offices in Sydney, London and New York. He’s a client I’ve worked with over the years since 2007, and a exceedingly pleasant, thoughtful and successful … Continue reading

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Working in the World of Propaganda: Creel, Lippmann & Bernays

[ Below, I’ve excerpted a section from my recent paper on early trailers and discourses of social control. This section considers the theoretical and practical writings about a/v entertainments (film) and their marketing (trailers, etc.) by three of the most … Continue reading

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WHEN A SPOOF TRAILER IS NO LONGER SPOOFING: Machete (2007) & Machete (2010) and the Crystal Image of the Futurum Exactum

[MACHETE SPOOF TRAILER – 2007] Daniel Hesford, a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Edinburgh, in his just published article “Action…Suspense…Emotion!: The Trailer as Cinematic Performance,” (in the special issue of Frames Cinema Journal devoted to promotional materials that I’ve … Continue reading

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