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Category Archives: Guest Posts
The Wizard of Gore: The Undeniable Appeal of Excess
[Continuing our look at trailers for exploitation films–what I’ve called in a previous post, a redundancy, insofar as a trailer is itself an “exploitation” film–we have today a trailer for an exploitation horror film. Tony is charmed by the preview … Continue reading
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Tagged " trailer, exploitation, Herschell Gordon Lewis, horror, kitsch, splatter film, The Wizard of Gore
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WIZARDS: A trailer for Ralph Bakshi's "ultimate futuristic fantasy epic"
Despite distribution by Hollywood powerhouse 20th Century-Fox, Wizards, the third feature-length film by animator/auteur Ralph Bakshi’s, performed poorly at the mainstream box office although it quickly became a underground phenomenon. This can be attributed in part to the film’s atypical … Continue reading
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Tagged 1970's, 20th century Fox, cult, Fantastic Planet, hand-drawn animation, ralph bakshi, rotoscope, susan tyrell, wizards
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Singin’ in the Rain – A Unified Analysis of Technology, Stars and Representation
EXCERPTED from Keith Johnston’s: “Coming Soon: Film Trailers and the Selling of Hollywood Technology,” (MacFarland, 2009) pp 13-17, by permission of the Author. From the point of view of film history, the Singin’ in the Rain trailer could be regarded … Continue reading
Posted in Classic Readings (of classic film trailers), Guest Posts
Tagged " trailer, color process, cyd charisse, debbie reynolds, donald o'connor, gene kelly, Keith Johnston, mgm, nostalgia, paramound decree, representation, singin' in the rain, technicolor, technology, television, unified analysis
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