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MOVIE TRAILERS: Free samples, but of what?

Posted on June 5, 2012 by Frederick Greene

A FREE SAMPLE FOR A DIFFERENT MOVIE THAN THE ONE ADVERTISED The universe of audio-visual heralds for audio-visual entertainments keeps expanding, as I hope to have demonstrated in these posts. Consequently, I find myself revising my definition, conception and understanding … Continue reading →

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER: Attitude is everything in a genre-bending trailer

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Frederick Greene

Cowboys and Aliens was a B.O. dud, unable to overcome the incongruity factor, possibly because the hybrid generic seam it mined was at once so rich and yet so poorly exploited. You could tell from the trailer–and the audience reaction–that … Continue reading →

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Meta Movies – Trailers, Free Samples & Self-consciousness

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Frederick Greene

(A FILM ABOUT COMEDY WITH JERRY SEINFELD) I have tried to use this blog to denaturalize and defamiliarize my subject. I’ve wanted to introduce critical distance into the appreciation of these short commercial films that are so universally enjoyed, so … Continue reading →

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