Intertextuality

INTERTEXTUALITY

"Intertextuality is a term to describe the visual referencing between films. Quite literally, films 'borrow' from each other, and you, the audience, may recognise certain camera angles, aspects of mise en scene, snippets of sound or methods of editing in some films that you have seen in others."

In class we looked at a significant clip from the film 'Psycho' and then other clips from What Lies Beneath, Fatal Attraction and The Stepfather - all films have 'borrowed' elements from the film Psycho and this is what is known as Intertextuality.

WHAT LIES BENEATH:

Borrowed from Psycho:
- Same clinical looking bathroom.
- Same white bath, white tiles, white shower curtain.
- Same ariel shot of the shower head.
- Same sounds of the shower being turned on and off  and the same mood is created.

FATAL ATTRACTION:


Borrowed from Psycho:
- Same shower scene.
- Same white tiles, white bathrobe, white curtain and white bath.
- Same knife.
- Same slow motion of woman sliding down the wall.
- Same aerial shot of shower head.

















THE STEPFATHER:


Borrowed from Psycho:
- Same white bath.
- Same white curtain/pulling off of the curtain.
- Same knife.
- Same position in bath.
- Same sliding down wall shot.


- Same staircase as What Lies Beneath.
- Same glass shattering shot as Fatal Attraction.