Contemporary grotesque
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- If - as Adonis Kyrou contends - “the modern marvelous is popular, and the best and most exciting films are, beginning with Méliès and Fantômas, the films shown in local fleapits” - the contemporary marvelous - and by extension the contemporary grotesque - is shown in video games and on MTV.--Sholem Stein
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