Intertextuality

After viewing The Poseidon Adventure (1972) it’s interesting to examine the film and it’s intertextuality. For example at the time of the film’s release it was hot off the heels of the decades first big disaster film hit Airport (1970). That film was a massive box office success and was nominated for many academy awards including best picture. Making another disaster movie after Airport makes perfect sense since both films were based off popular novels and boasted a massive star studded cast.…

2002).This technique, works well in nonlinear narrative structure, as there the filmic flow is disrupted with narration, dreams, hallucinations, flashbacks, and multiple storylines, as it can connect gaps in the narrative flow. Studying Intertextuality Intertextuality has been a common term since its first introduction by Julia Kristeva in her work of the late-1960s, notably her essay of 1969, translated as “Word,…

immigrant families. This paper will firstly introduce the concept of intertextuality and how it is present in this text, then it will focus on the Mexican legend in the story, and finally, it will discuss the multicultural aesthetic of the piece. The Cariboo Café is seasoned with intertextuality and peppered with references to real life events that impacted the lives of Central American immigrants residing in the United States. Intertextuality, “the complex interrelationship between…

In the film Being John Malkovich, there are many connections that can be drawn between the character of John Malkovich himself, and concepts in communication studies. One such connection is how Malkovich’s character relates to the abandonment of notions like high and low culture that we see in the concept of postmodernism. Postmodernism is the reaction to modernism, the idea that there is a spectrum of cultural experiences (some are only accessible to higher classes than others) and moving past…

Lurhmann uses intertextuality in his film to bring the ideas of Shakespeare surrounding conflict into a modern context. Intertextuality is a post-modern technique which explores the relationship between two texts, in this case Lurhmann bases his film off of Shakespeare's play thus, the two texts have a relationship. Intertextuality is present in the film and allows Lurhmann to bring new ideas to Shakespeare's text. Lurhmann…

In the articles “ The Epic Love Story of Sam and Dean” by Catherine Tosenberger and “Women, Star Trek and the Early Development of Fannish Vidding” by Francesca Coppa, examples of both textual poaching and intertextuality, or nomadic reading is demonstrated. Based off of discussions in class and Henry Jenkins “Get A Life”, textual poaching refers to the relationship between fans and producers, where fans interpret and re-create new materials by the appropriation of various media content. Nomadic…

essay ‘The Cry from Within or Without? Pynchon and the Modern – Postmodern Divide’ where he fervently argues against McHale’s ‘claim’ that The Crying of Lot 49 is fundamentally a modernist text by presenting two core arguments relating to a) intertextuality and b) Oedipa’s search for truth. Before I will dispute any arguments of Harvey himself, I have to note that Harvey starts his essay with an incorrect claim, because McHale had already repudiated his previous statement of The Crying of Lot…

explores the themes appearance and reality, showing how appearances can be deceptive and how humans are complex in his novel, Double Exposure. He does this by using the metaphor of double exposure, and characterisation. Caswell also effectively used intertextuality to ensure that the reader has a greater understanding of the main themes, and to convey different ideas that are explored during the novel. Double Exposure deals with ideas of how appearance and reality can be deceptive and the…

has been fully expressed in Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose and Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 in which both demonstrate a plethora of postmodern characteristics such as strategic use of allusion and irony, and clever employment of intertextuality; per contra, these similar attributes are structurally the same but…

In "The Concept of a Discourse Community", John Swales (1990) aimed to define what a discourse community is; then he carefully deconstructs discourse community into six fundamental attributes that are important for recognizing a discourse community. Swales definition of a discourse community is a group that has objectives or purposes, and utilize communication to accomplish those objectives. The six essential characteristics that he claims to be the core of a discourse community are its goals,…