RESEARCH- Intertextuality

Intertextuality is the shaping of texts' meanings by other texts. It pretty much means that films have borrowed aspects of other films, and the audience have picked up on this, these are features such as camera angles, editing, sound and most commonly mise en scene. 

Intertextuality is used in films older films and films today. For example the films Psycho and Fatal Attraction both have very similar features. Most obviously the mise en scene is very similar, as both films use a knife prop and both are set in a bathroom. Also, another obvious comparison is that one character stabs another. Both films use dramatic music which increases the intensity. A more subtle comparison that is not as easy to pick up on is that both films show close-ups of the womens' faces in the bath. Lastly, there is slow and tense editing at the end of both scenes.