Book Preview: Flip the Script: European Hip Hop and the Politics of Postcoloniality
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By William Cheng and Andrew Dell’Antonio From Plato to Public Enemy, people have debated the relationship between music and justice, rarely arriving at much consensus over the art form’s ethics and aesthetics, uses and abuses, virtues and vices. So what roles can music and… Read More
By Will Gibbons In the years since Gary Jules’s cover of “Mad World” graced an influential 2006 teaser, covers or edited versions of popular songs have become de rigeur in video game trailers. That’s particularly the case at the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, where… Read More
By James Deaville The teaser trailer to “A Wrinkle in Time” dropped eight months before cinematic release to high expectations and apprehensions: Madeleine L’Engle’s eponymous science fantasy novel has formed such an important part of so many childhoods that it was hard to imagine what director Ava… Read More
By Jacqueline Avila Sony Pictures Entertainment’s trailer for Proud Mary (2018, dir. Babak Najafi) begins with a stationary shot of the sun rising quickly over the beautiful Boston skyline. This alluring establishing shot is accompanied by the slow vamp of Tina Turner’s… Read More
By Loren Kajikawa The trailer for Marvel’s Black Panther, scheduled for release in February of 2018, makes use of a “trailerized” version of “Legend Has It,” the third track on rap duo Run The Jewels’ 2017 album, Run The Jewels 3. This musical… Read More
The trailer is one of the few forms of mediated advertising that the public actively seeks out, and, on occasion, even enjoys. When effectively constructed, trailers create anticipation of and desire for the completed product, all within a closed media form of only two… Read More