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Movie Rip-Offs: A User’s Guide – Détournement and Dub Parodies

Posted on May 22, 2011 by SMW

“Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It holds tight an author’s phrase, uses his expressions, eliminates a false idea, and replaces it with just the right idea.” Comte de Lautréamont (Isidore Ducasse), Poésies II (1870). “Ideas improve. The meaning of … Continue reading →

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