Intertextuality...

What is Intertextuality?


Intertextuality is the term used to describe the visual referencing between films, it quite literally means that films borrow from one another, they do this to make us, the audience to recognise certain camera angles or aspects of Mise En Scene, snippets of sound or methods of editing in some films that you have seen in others.

Comparing Stepfather with Phycho

I think that the film Stepfather is the one that is the most similar to, this is because there are a number of scenes in Stepfather that are used in the film Phycho, for example there is the scene where the women stabs the man and he falls back into the shower taking the shower curtain with him, there is then a close up of the man falling down the shower leaving a trail of blood with him.

Stepfather                                                                                                     Phycho

the two images either side show a man in both movies holding a knife and threatening to kill a women who is lying infront of them in the shower.

The screen shots that yo can see here show a man and a women pulling down the shower curtain, this can be used to show pain.



                                                         The two screen grabs that you can see here show i man and a women clearly in pain sliding down the shower tiles.





I really like the way the Stepfather references psycho, they have done the film justice because Psycho was the first film for a lot of people where they actually saw a women in the shower without her clothes on, if it was not for this film having such a dramatic effect on the films of our generation, then the chances are we would probably be watching more or less the same sort of films today.