FIST 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Performativity, Joe Dante, Secret Path
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That you cant think of what should be film. Shifted down from phenomenon, industry, fandom, subculture, and campnow paracinema. In turn, filmmaker have used audiences management of their cult attitude to consciously design films to include transgressive, exotic, offensive, nostalgic or highly interextual narratives and styles. In spite of this conscious cultism, there continue to be receptions - especially in relation to the use of new technologies alongside traditional theatrical exhibition - that generate unexpected audience engagements which reconfigure the very notion of viewership. The moment it starts indicates that there are a surprising amount of viso that signals. Pulls you out of your normalized viewing strategy. Seeing things that are not supposed to be there. The way that it does make the screen baffles you reconfigure the very notion viewership. A bit more rowdy (more than rocky picture show) Paracinema a type of film that is so bad that it becomes good.
