Intertextuality

This lesson, one of the best I have ever witnessed, started with Ivan giving various definitions of intertextuality,  probably the more easy to understand was by Julia Kristeva : “Transposition of one (or several) sign system (s) into another...

I’ve never thought before watching the scene on Thursday there was a relation between the scene of Madagascar 2 and the original film Planet of the Apes (1968), definitely for some adults  it should be a great experience, for next generations it was just a stupid scene. 

 In recent times, if we look at some of the most famous series like The Simpsons or Family Guy, they are full of intertextuality; every scene reminds you something if you watch carefully. Personally I think it is due to a lack of new original ideas. 

The funniest part of the lesson was the intertextuality between John Travoltas’s films. A part from the song of Grease (which still produce sense of moving the body), intertextuality has an important role to influence human behaviour. If you think, a person is a group of influences which has he has received and sometimes influences are similar to intertextuality. 

Anyway, one of the lessons I will always remind.