Research - Intertexuality

Research - Intertexuality.

The term Intertextuality refers to the process of creating references to any kind of media text via another media text. In other words Intertextuality essentially means for a type of media(film,television,music etc) to pay homage to another media text.

Parody films such as 'Scary Movie' and 'Superhero movie' were created almost completely out of Intertextuality. For example to 2008 spoof film 'Superhero movie' pays homage to other films which had been released before this film, which all belong to the same genre of superhero films (hence the film's title).
An example of Intertexuality would be in parody films such as 'Scary Movie' and 'Superhero Movie. Both these films were created almost completely out of intertexuality. 'Superhero Movie' almost takes all ideas, intentionally, from other films which had been released before and bases their movies on the other films templates. Being a spoof, the amount of intertexuality is very high and is quite visible throughout the scene. The film is clear in using films which all belong to the same genre of superhero movies. In particular, this film uses the superhero film 'Spider-man(2002) as its main template, since Superhero movie contains as similar storyline with similar characters.



In further detail the film Spider-man's story centres around an american teenager called Peter Parker who gains superhuman abilities after he is bitten by a radioactive spider and then becomes a superhero known as Spider-man. This is very identical to the main plot of the parody film Superhero movie, in which a high school teenager named Rick Riker also gains superhuman abilities from after being bitten by a radioactive dragonfly and the becomes a superhero called the Dragonfly.

The 2006 comedy film 'She's the man' and the 1998 romance film 'Shakespeare in Love' were both inspired by William Shakespeare's comedy play 'Twelth Night'. This play centres around a woman named Viola who disguises herself as a man , so that she can gain a job serving the Duke of Illyria, which is a job that only a man could get in the play's time period. This plot theme is reflected in the films 'She's the man' and 'Shakespeare in Love'. This is shown as in these two films, the protagonists(which are both female) disguise themselves as members of the opposite sex so that they can both gain something, which would be unavailable to them as women