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Friday 13 January 2012

Intertextuality

Intertextuality

Is the shaping of texts, story line or scenes from other texts, photographs, paintings or films. It can include an author’s borrowing and transformation of a prior text or to a reader’s referencing of one text in reading another.


As an example of this a found in one of The Simpsons episodes an Intertextuality reference to the film The Shining. 





Some still shots of the film, to get an idea of what is the story line. 





This link is to get a glimpse of the way The Simpsons used The Shinning in their episode.



The wife is trying to run away from 'Jhonny', as he wants to rip her apart.
In the episode from The Simpsons, Homer gets crazy as he is living in a house for several days, without beer or food, this is what drives him insane and tries to attack Marge. They even included the   
In the film the wife finds several pages with the phrase 'All works end no play makes a dull boy'. He wrote it with a type writer. He fills several pages of this.
marge is 






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