Tag: Viral marketing

• Customer-Fans and the Happily Exploited

  

  Time for another story (I appear to have a lot to tell!); this time, about the experiences I had at the biggest comic book convention in the world, San Diego Comic Con International. When I graduated college, I moved to Los Angeles and ended up working at an agency that represents writers, directors and producers. […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  June 12, 2017

  Audience/Reception Studies, Comics Studies, Fandom, Uncategorized

  Co-optation, Comic Con International, customer-fans, diffusion of innovation, exploitation, fan communities, fan conventions, fan labor, Fandom, Fandom Marketing, fans, Halle Berry, Hollywood, loyal consumers, Marketing, opinion leaders, political economic theory, San Diego Comic Con, SDCC, social networks, Viral marketing

• The Pop Culture Lens Episode 16: The Exorcist (1973)

  

  As I have been writing about for awhile now, Chris and I are working on a book project that explores the tensions depicted in exorcism cinema. That is, we are analyzing films that depict possession and exorcism to understand what is being said about the world through those representations. Part of this analysis has been […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  October 29, 2015

  Film Studies, Gender Studies, Sexuality

  Abby, abjection, blasphemy, Blatty, exorcism, Exorcist II: The Heretic, exploitation, Father Karras, Father Merrin, Feminism, Friedkin, Grace: The Possession, monstrous-feminine, parody, Possessed, possession, post-colonialism, queer theory, racism, Regan, Repossessed, Seytan, slashers, The Dybbuk, The Exorcist, The Exorcist III, The Last Exorcism, The Last Exorcism Part II, The Pop Culture Lens, The Possession, the uncanny, Viral marketing

• The Devil Inside: The One that Pissed Off People

  

  A good found footage movie relies on its ability to trick you into thinking, just for a second, that maybe this could have been happening.  We all know it didn’t — the fact that we are seeing a “movie” is the largest proof against that idea — but we still like to trick ourselves in […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  June 4, 2014

  Critical/Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Gender Studies

  abortion, Catholic, Catholic Church, demonic possession, demons, Devin Faraci, documentary, exorcism, exorcist, found footage, Gameplay marketing, liberation, old school, patriarchy, possession, punishment, sexuality, The Devil Inside, The Exorcist, The Last Exorcism, Vatican, Viral marketing