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Q & A with an Argentinian Film Student

A couple of months ago, I received a request to respond to an online interview. Having reflected, responded and revised, I’m posting my answers to my interlocutor’s questions, hoping that they might prove salutary to other readers. Thanks to Mr. … 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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TOWARD A CRITICAL THEORY OF (MOVIE TRAILER) ADVERTISING

[This trailer foregrounds its purposes and its devices, it’s “systematically distorted communication.”] According to Professors John Harms & Douglas Kellner in their overview of the scholarly research on advertising emerging within Critical Media Studies, “advertising is a form of social … Continue reading

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