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In “Trashing the Academy,” Jeffrey Sconce argues that the subculture devoted to paracinema possesses a similar level of sophistication and cultural capital to “elite cineastes.” He writes, The discourses characteristically employed by paracinematic culture in its valorization of ‘low-brow’ artefacts indicate that this audience, like the film elite (academics, aesthetes, critics), is particularly rich withContinue reading “Trashing the Academy (part 2)”