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Like their '30s antecedents, the brothers rely on B-grade genre pics to generate the revenues to pay for artier films.
That quotation itself calls attention to apocalyptic antecedents in the Bible, where the end of the days or the last days , meaning "the end of the world," is often much on people's minds.
As for my antecedents, I must confess that I have never heard of Mary Killen, "Eppie," or Jeffrey Zaslow.
Savage attributes such Svengalian omnipotence to Malcolm McLaren, and focuses so heavily on McLaren's intellectual antecedents, from structuralism to the Situationist International, that you could easily forget there was any band there at all.)
Many of these developments blend smoothly into their antecedents and later elaborations.