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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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  Re: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the "Killer Condom"

  Now I want "Killer Condom 2: Ribbed for Her Terror"

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  Kaelin B.C. Alexander Cornell University

  Friday, March 20, 2009 — 3:12 am

  part, sure. But I’d also offer that Killer Condom welcomes the possibility that its spectacular genre ...
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  What Bad Does

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  James Daniel Elam Northwestern University

  March 20, 2009

  3 comments

  success on iTunes and will supposedly hit retail outlets soon.   It may be possible to brush the video ...
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  Advertising and the Older Generation: Humerous or Degrading?

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  Caja Thimm University of Bonn, Germany

  March 23, 2009

  6 comments

  Advertising and the Older Generation: Humerous or Degrading? technology Stereotypes old age Curator's Note Guided by a perspective that advertisements are not just about selling products, brand names, and services, I am studying the content and socia ...

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