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30 MARCH 2012
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Repo Man: generic packaging in a plain pack world

"Clark Collins definition of Repo Man as an 'hilarious genre-hopping indictment of consumerism in which, for example, all cans of drink in the supermarket are labelled simply 'drink'' (Collins 2001: 36)"

(Nicholas Rombes)

Nicholas Rombes (2005). New Punk Cinema, Edinburgh University Press.

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1980s • 1984 • Alex Cox • alien • anti-consumerist • apocalyptic • apocalyptic cynicism • b-movie • black comedy • Blair Witch Project • blue text • cans of drink • Chevrolet Malibu • Chevy Malibu • consumable • consumerism • consumption • cool • counterculture • cult movie • cynicism • design conceit • disenfranchised • drink • Emilio Estevez • film • film genre • Flipper (band) • food label • generic • generic brand • generically • grocery store • Gummo • humour • indictment of consumerism • label • low budget • Memento • new wave • Otto (character) • packaging • packaging design • plain • plain pack • plain white • product packaging • product placement • punk • punk rock • punk rock ethos • rebellion • Repo Man • Requiem for a Dream • Ronald Reagan • Run Lola Run • shopping • subculture • supermarket • The Celebration • Time Code

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Simon Perkins
25 NOVEMBER 2008
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Liquid Sky: pleasure-seeking alien lands in downtown New York and gets caught up in a world of casual sex and heroin abuse

"A time-capsule cult movie from 1982: A pleasure-seeking alien lands in downtown New York and gets caught up in a world of casual sex and heroin abuse (the title itself is slang for 'heroin') by insinuating itself into the lives androgynous hipsters Margaret and Larry (both played by Anne Carlisle). Curiously cool, with plenty of early '80s fashion, a vivid colour scheme and a weird, pulsing electronic score.
Dir Slava Tsukerman US 1982, 112 mins, cert 18"

(Institute of Contemporary Arts, UK)

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1980s • 1982 • alien • androgyny • Anne Carlisle • art film • casual sex • cinema • clubbing • consumption • cool • counterculture • crystal sceptre • cult • design • designer drugs • deviance • drug addiction • electro • electronic music • excess • fashion • film • futuristic • heroin abuse • Liquid Sky • make-up • model • New York • orgasm • psychedelic • punk • rape • sci-fi • science fiction • space ship • spectacle • subculture • subversion • synth punk • synthesized music • transgression • Tsukerman • underground • USA

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Simon Perkins
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