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Copycat Movie Posters

Nobody copies like Hollywood and advertising. Put them together? Things get even worse.

But before you get too upset, remember what these posters are for: they’re a kind of visual shorthand for genre. The fact that they all look alike is, to the marketing department, a feature, not a bug.

The first thing I learned as a librarian: you can judge a book by its cover, or at least its genre.

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   Poster art as a visual marker of genre:

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    Except that it’s got the Star Trek logo!

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    Well, this is cool…

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    What weirds me out in this is...new Star Trek poster is completely unrecognizable

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