Intertextuality

This was the one lecture which i missed and was thoroughly disaapointed after asking people what the lecture was about, looking through their notes and looking at the slides and document files on studynet.

From what i gathered the lecture was purely based around films and tv shows which really caught my attention. It;s impossible for me to say what i though of the lecture (obviously) but from what i read, it seems like intertextuality is the equivalent to post-modernism in fine art.

post-modernism points out the fact that no piece of art or idea for an art piece is original in any way shape or form. therefor the idea must have been generated from another piece or more likely several pieces. this makes the final outcome a work of several arts. also it can be argued that the artists didn't know that the idea hadn't been done before which brings in the idea of  the unconcious and self-concious mentioned in the slide.

In the context of films and tv shows it is exactly the same. i immeditaley think of family guy, much like many other people would i think. the show basically only consists of references to 70s-80s tv shows and films based around a fairly loose storyline. if i was able to, i could probably list every single film i've ever seen in my life and make an epic spider diagram showing what element of the film is intertextual to what and not one film will be original, since the subject is so wide open. story lines are also intertextual. sure you can add all sorts of variables, characters, obstacles and settings but in the end it all boils down to a genre such as horror, quest, action, romance. I remember beng told that there are only a certain number of different genres/types of stories and shakespeare touched on every single one.

going through the slides, i always thought that bram stokers novel was sort of "the core" of the dracula franchise and everything else was intertetual from that. but never really questioned that he took influence from other novels.