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  Re: El Cazador de la Ciudadana

  Good observation

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  Dana Heller Old Dominion University

  Thursday, March 12, 2009 — 4:23 pm

  the same sentence, he looked at me like I had two heads--like I could not possibly be serious.  I got ...
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  Re: Miss Independent, or Between Women - Reconsidered

  slashing the covers

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  Dana Luciano Georgetown University

  Saturday, March 14, 2009 — 1:05 am

  I’m interested, as I said earlier, in the way this vid and the one Dana posted might talk to one ... repurposings like Rin on the Rox’s do to that genre? I’m thinking here also of Karen’s question, “We are so ... “acting out against extinction”? I’m intrigued but having a hard time filling in what you might have in ...
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  Anxious Coed Spontaneous Fried-Chicken Dance Party

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  Jeffrey Sconce Northwestern University

  March 16, 2009

  6 comments

  Anxious Coed Spontaneous Fried-Chicken Dance Party narration bad movies diegesis Curator's Note Sublime badness exists in a signifying purgatory, caught somewhere between diegetic suspension and profilmic fascination.  Scenes are blocked, lines deliv ...
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  Re: Anxious Coed Spontaneous Fried-Chicken Dance Party

  Cinematic madness

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  Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece Northwestern University

  Monday, March 16, 2009 — 2:57 pm

  Jeff, this post and clip are so great! What I’m curious about is how this clip (and perhaps Lewis’ ... nauseating real toward which badfilm draws us is on some level a gut-wrenching lurch toward insanity.  I’m ... also are associated with the fringes not just of culture but of sanity—hence the possibility of ...
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  Some movies are bad, but some are undead: Watchmen

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  Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece Northwestern University

  March 18, 2009

  6 comments

  film of the loveable sort can sometimes provide a glimpse of the excitement of unbounded possibility ...
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  Re: Some movies are bad, but some are undead: Watchmen

  Look at Me, I've Seen "White Heat"

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  Jeffrey Sconce Northwestern University

  Wednesday, March 18, 2009 — 5:23 pm

  sunlight possible. I'm also impressed here by the Baudrillardian attention to pointless stylistic ... sure, but still a bit different).  Does Watchmen-grade awfulness suggest a third possibility?  ...
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  Re: Some movies are bad, but some are undead: Watchmen

  fantastic responses!

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  Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece Northwestern University

  Wednesday, March 18, 2009 — 7:09 pm

  Thanks, everyone, for some truly insightful and provocative comments. I’m delighted to read all of ... Watchmen)?  I really think there’s something to the visual-to-visual medium here, but I’m not sure what; I’d ... going to try to fake it in the fakest way possible.  To at least gesture toward an answer to your final ...
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  How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the "Killer Condom"

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  Kaelin B.C. Alexander Cornell University

  March 19, 2009

  7 comments

  Bad Film Curator's Note Killer Condom (1996) is quite possibly the most pro-queer film of the ...
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  Re: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the "Killer Condom"

  Who's bad?

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  James Daniel Elam Northwestern University

  Thursday, March 19, 2009 — 2:19 pm

  the way. Especially given the very comic, very cliché NYPD Italian cop name, I feel like I’m watching ...
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  Re: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the "Killer Condom"

  I could never come up with a better title than Killer Condom

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  Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece Northwestern University

  Thursday, March 19, 2009 — 8:04 pm

  shifting and discursive motion? Finally, I’m wondering at what points or in what genres bad film functions ...

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