Why do artists use Intertextuality?

Why do artists use Intertextuality?

Madonna/Monroe  

-          Lyrical link

-          60’s/50’s film

-          Beauty icon

-          Extravagant/ expensive

   




Beastie boys/cop dramas

-          Spoof = same editing, titles, Mise en scene, costume, cars, camera work.

Robbie Williams/Kiss

-          Make up

-          Band set up

-          Crazy movements/ dancing

-          Costumes

-          Robbie = parody – pop and metal

-          Mise en scene

-          Everything was over the top

-          Black and white – class feel

-          Helped lose boy band image

Chilli peppers/video games

-          References to popular culture and films – criticising it.

Eminem/ comic books

-          Parody of American culture – controversial

-          Why are super hero’s always black  

-          Elvis Presley when he pulls out a burger – how they always eat fast foods

-          Mock Jeremy Kyle show

Blur/ a clockwork orange

-          Visuals – costume, setting

-          Controversial – ‘dirty’, intellectual

Oasis/Billy Liar/ kitchen sink dramas

-          Parody

-          Realistic northern drama

-          Links to class (working class)

-          Editing and titles