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Tag Archives: genre
THE DOUBLE TRAILER: Audiences who like this sort of thing…will like this sort of thing
A genre in film is analogous to a commodity category in non-experiential consumer products. Marks of generic or categorical membership represent bids to fulfill expectations, to anticipate desires and rationalize their satisfaction. Trailers, whose typical and predictive markers are the … Continue reading
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Tagged convention, doppelganger, dostoevsky, formulae, genre, inaccessible, independent film, james fox, Jesse Eisenberg, kafka-esque, mia wasikowska, movie marketing, noah taylor, psychological drama, richard ayoade, the double, uncompromising, wallace shawn, yasmin paige
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POULTRYGEIST UNCENSORED TRAILER: Code Brown, or Don’t Question Troma’s Commitment to Marketing its Films
A co-worker showed me this preview for “Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead,” which features an orgy of violence perpetrated by the eponymous villains against the unwitting but presumably deserving employees of a Chicken Restaurant unhappily located on a desecrated … Continue reading