RESEARCH- Intertextuality

Intertextuality 

Intertextuality can be defined as the visual referencing between films . Films 'borrow' certain techniques from each other as you may notice ,such as certain camera angles, aspects of mise en scene, snippets of sound or methods of editing in some films that you have seen in others.

For example ; This is the famous 'shower scene' from a thriller 'Psycho'. Countless films have borrowed different elements from it.

In 'Psycho' shower scene - The character gets killed in the shower. There are many extreme close-ups, which shows us exactly what's happening as well as a medium shot directly before and after the murder. The soundtrack of screeching violins, violas and cellos were played in the background. This caused a lot of tension.

Here are some examples of how four different films have 'borrowed' aspects from Hitchcock movie 'Psycho'.

This is a shower scene from a thriller ' What Lies beneath'. A man carried a woman to the bath- setting. The elements that have been taken from 'Psycho' is  both of the victims happened to be blonde females; vulnerable characters. 

'Fatal Attraction', also has a bathroom scene . Intertextuality is used in this is when the woman and the man are fighting, the blonde woman is once again the predator. Similarly to 'Psycho' the shower curtain gets pulled , and there's a knife involved in this scene.

In the 'Stepfather' bathroom scene, a man gets killed by a woman.  The techniques that have been taken from the famous 'Psycho' scene is the pulling down of the curtain and knife involvement. 

In Succubus ( Student Thriller)we see a woman smelling the man's robe whilst he's in the shower, who then opens the shower door and kills the man. The aspects that seem 'borrowed' is the shower scene, and the actual psycho with a knife ; stabbing the man in the shower.