If you come across a really good resource, please let me know!

MOST IMPORTANT LINKS:

• TV Tropes: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Tropes
• Genius.com: best for looking up the intertextual references in music. https://genius.com/

What is Intertextuality?

This Year 12 SACE teacher explains it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b9I3WoEHBo, as well as talking about Appropriation, Allusions and Parody.

Types of Intertextuality

There are two main types: indirect (cultural or accidental references) and direct (deliberate references).

If you write a narrative using common horror tropes, you are using indirect intertextuality.

If you write a narrative and deliberately make a Beyonce joke by referring to ‘all the single ladies put your hand up!’, then you are using direct intertextuality

A really good video with media examples is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_CUd5apse4 but it is meant for an adult audience so the guy speaks in higher level English.

Examples of Intertextuality?

There are hundreds of intertextuality videos on Youtube.

Here are some good ones:

Intertextuality in Film and TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3vpFGbudpw

Example Intertextuality essay (in video form): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ojj3r4eubE

I want to learn more!

Not for the faint hearted! These are Year 12 or higher concepts.

A more complex explanation that uses movies (especially Star Wars and Disney) as examples, and talks about the emotional use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrwqVMpgQak . Someone also made a video in response to this about intertextuality in Stranger Things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwTpsw-ufDA

‘Death of the Author’

The ‘Death of the Author’ is one of the philosophical concepts behind Intertextuality.

This guy explains it really well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2A9ahG1iHQ