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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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Exploit This! — "Exploitation Trailer" is Redundant

An exploitation film is a genre of film that exploits itself through advertising and forbidden elements, rather than relying on meaningful or intrinsic content, They are shot on a low budgets, with very poor production values, and thus are regarded … Continue reading

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