Intertextuality – when one text refers to another or to current events
- Life of Brian
- Monty Python and the holy Grail
- Shrek
(Lord Farquaad and his kingdom which is just like Disney land so Disney were sending themselves up – it’s a small world!!)
- Stargate SG1 and the cover up programme Wormhole Xtreme!!
Pastiche – a medley of existing themes / forms / styles…
- See YouTube and the Lego men do The Knights of the Round Table
- See YouTube and Noah takes a photo of himself every day for 6 years followed by Homer picture a day for 39 years
Bricolage – giving a new meaning to an old form
- Western – Firefly / Wild, Wild West
- Vampire / Gothic Horror – Twilight
Simulacra – created artificial life forms / places etc. The boundaries of artificial and reality blur.
- The Truman Show
- The Matrix
- The Picture of Dorian Grey
- Includes caricature
- Spitting Image
Associated with Jean Baudrillard’s belief that technological progress effects social change. Influenced by Marxism but believed that consumption not production drives capitalist society.
Hyperreality – fulfilment found through fantasy rather than reality; people who send flowers to dead soap characters.
- The film 300, live action filmed in front of green screen then CGI’d in after!!
- Vegas and the Venice Casino
- Second Life
- Touched up magazine photos
- Reality TV
- Baudrillard regarded Main Street at Disney World as a major example