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• In Media Res
  Re: Displacing Meaning: Parodic Ads “Without texts”

  Thanks for your comment Paul.

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  Taylor Nygaard University of Denver

  Tuesday, March 18, 2014 — 5:08 pm

  Thanks for your comment Paul. I really appreciate you bringing up genre here and how this example doesn't quite fit with the genre parody films that it is referencing with its title. I think what I found troubling about the trailer is exactly that it ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Displacing Meaning: Parodic Ads “Without texts”

  Preemptive Critique

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  Taylor Nygaard University of Denver

  Wednesday, March 19, 2014 — 4:43 am

  Thanks for your comments Erik and for finding these gems as examples of my point! With this analysis, I'm building off of the work of Angela McRobbie who has described a tendency towards "post-feminist irony" in contemporary advertisements ...
• In Media Res
  Re: The Many Texts of Textless Paratexts

  unwittingly spawned?

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  Taylor Nygaard University of Denver

  Tuesday, March 18, 2014 — 5:12 pm

  Thanks for your post Johannes. I explore very similar terrain in my post for tomorrow (analyzing another parody trailer), and I was struck by your phrasing "unwittingly spawned," because I see these types of trailers as becoming a deliberate too ...