Intertextuality

Intertextuality is a media text making reference to another media text. An example of this is Madonna's 1985 video for 'Material Girl'. The whole video is closely modelled after Marilyn Monroe's version of 'Diamond's Are A Girl's Best Friend.'


My music video will include an intertextual reference to the film 'Fight Club'. In the movie The Narrator walks past a wall that has been graffitied with the words 'I LIKE MYSELF" on it. This was symbolic because thanks to his alter ego, Tyler Durden, The Narrator was beginning to like himself and the life he was living, whereas before he was depressed and incredibly cynical. In my music video, there will be an intertextual reference, as Character One will walk past a wall with just the word 'MYSELF' on it, as a sign that the alter ego is really himself.