Intertextuality

Intertextuality
Similarities with 'psycho'

Intertextuality is a term to describe the visual referencing between films. films use other aspects of media texts and interpret it in there own way. For example the film may use elements of camera angles, Mise-en scene, sound and editing which is similar to other films. The good thing about intertextuality is that it helps us to relate and helps attract audiences to the film. 

The Step Father

For our task we had to analyse a few clips of movies which all had some simliar aspects of the 1960's film 'Psycho' by Hitchcock. The film i have chosen to look at is the 'Step Father' in 2009. This film is very similar in ways however has its own twist throughout. The clip we were given to watch was set in a house. A woman is getting chased by a man into a bathroom. She stabs they then have a stand off and while the man comes at her with a kitchen nife she gets a shard of glass and manages to stab him in the neck. he then falls back into the bath tub and rips down the shower curtain as blood drips down from his neck


Similarities to the 'psycho' are

• The woman getting attacked in the bathroom
• a kitchen knife as the main means off attack
• shower curtains getting pulled down
• white tiles in the bathroom
• the man being the attacker