THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS: A usable past

Hellzapopppin’ (1941). DB here: By now everybody is used to allusionism in our movies—moments that cite, more or less explicitly other films. But we tend to forget that movies have been referencing other movies for a long while. One classic form is parody, as when Keaton’s The Three Ages (1923) makes fun of Intolerance (1916). [...]



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