Angelina Karpovich

Brunel University

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This Actually Needs to Happen: The Daria Movie Trailer

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Angelina Karpovich Brunel University

March 20, 2014
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This Actually Needs to Happen: The Daria Movie Trailer Paratexts Without Texts nostalgia MTV Daria CollegeHumor Curator's Note First, a confession/anecdote: a couple of years ago, one of my best friends and I went to see American Pie: Reunion. My fri ...
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Fragments of Dexter: The Credit Sequence as Character Study

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Angelina Karpovich Brunel University

November 02, 2009
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Fragments of Dexter: The Credit Sequence as Character Study serial killers on screen Opening Credit Sequence Dexter Curator's Note /*-->*/ Just as the credit sequence of Mad Men deliberately recalls imagery from Hitchcock films and TV series, invo ...

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Re: The Many Texts of Textless Paratexts

Great post, Johannes! I was

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Angelina Karpovich Brunel University

Wednesday, March 19, 2014 — 4:16 pm
Great post, Johannes! I was struck by how much our examples and analyses complemented each other, and my post will link back to yours and reinforce your point about the multiple intertextualities within the fake trailer genre. Can we talk about the fake t ...
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Re: Displacing Meaning: Parodic Ads “Without texts”

Great post! Compare and

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Angelina Karpovich Brunel University

Wednesday, March 19, 2014 — 1:59 pm
Great post! Compare and contrast this clip with a somewhat parallel British offering, satirising the cliches of contemporary "urban" low-budget Brit films: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnulqi3ZncU. It's particularly good at representing t ...