{"id":36343,"date":"2011-12-29T12:10:01","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T17:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=36343"},"modified":"2013-11-09T04:47:49","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T09:47:49","slug":"formula-for-a-successful-american-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/12\/29\/formula-for-a-successful-american-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Formula for a Successful American Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>For the last week of December, we\u2019re re-posting some of our favorite posts from 2011.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/06\/12.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36354\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/06\/12.jpg\" width=\"558\" height=\"91\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/06\/12.jpg 558w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/06\/12-500x81.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A good mockery can go a long way towards exposing cultural trends. \u00a0And this faux &#8220;Trailer for Every Oscar-Winning Movie Ever,&#8221; sent along by Ben N., does a fabulous job of revealing just how damn formulaic American movies can be. \u00a0It&#8217;s a treat:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"560\" height=\"349\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/rbhrz1-4hN4?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>See also:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/11\/03\/kotex-sells-tampons-by-making-fun-of-selling-tampons\/\">mocking tampon commercials<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last week of December, we\u2019re re-posting some of our favorite posts from 2011. \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 A good mockery can go a long way towards exposing cultural trends. \u00a0And this faux &#8220;Trailer for Every Oscar-Winning Movie Ever,&#8221; sent along by Ben N., does a fabulous job of revealing just how damn formulaic American movies can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,343],"class_list":["post-36343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-culture","tag-tvmovies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36343"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58547,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36343\/revisions\/58547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}