Criticism Of The Halloween Movie Trailer

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The literary theory allows critics to consider works of art based on certain their assumptions. There are many different types of literary criticism. After watching each of the videos, it's determined that each video shows a different kind of criticism.

Reader-Response is the type of criticism used in the Halloween movie trailer. At the beginning of the video, it shows a critic reviewing the movie Halloween; which is evidence of reader-response criticism. This type of criticism is based off the how to reader reacts to the reading/video.

Poststructuralism is the kind of criticism used the 300 and Frozen movie trailers. These videos contained a lot of jokes made fun of the film. That sort of criticism attacks the object which in this case

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