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“HANDS UP!” PROMO-TRAILER REDUX: Retraction and Reappreciation

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Frederick Greene

[Note: I visited UCLA’s Archive Research Study Center the other night to watch again this 1918 promo in order to fill in some gaps in my handwritten notes and prior to submitting a draft of an academic paper on early … Continue reading →

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RUST & BONE: light, sound, words

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Frederick Greene

Rust and Bone made many critics top 10 list for 2012. I’ve just watched the trailer, but avoided reading a synopsis, so this post relies on the a/v evidence of the trailer for its analysis. I did look up the … Continue reading →

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TOWARD A CRITICAL THEORY OF (MOVIE TRAILER) ADVERTISING

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Frederick Greene

[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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