Superbad (2007)
Figures
Form & technique
- Scene where Seth dances with a girl and gets menstrual blood on his jeans → Maternal Abjection
Tropes
- The relationship between Officers Slater & Michaels and Fogell → Carnivalesque Inversion
- Fogell's creation and embodiment of the "McLovin" identity
- Seth's compulsive drawing of penises
- The non-diegetic funk soundtrack → Anempathetic Sound
- The central plot quest to procure alcohol and have sex → The Enterprise of the Self
- Seth and Evan's codependent friendship and painful separation → Homosocial Desire
- The film's overall generic conventions
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