Intertextuality

Intertextuality: is the shaping of text by other texts - the interrelationships between texts. Intertextuality is taking inspiration of a scene from one film and using it on another, but with changes to it made, with similar set of conventions.

Psycho (1960)

shower scene in Alfred Hitchcocks 'Psycho' is one of the classic scenes in film history. This has inspired producers to borrow and implement them onto other films with various conventions that are alike to that in Psycho.

Fatal Attraction (1987)

The kitchen knife that is used in this scene is the same in the one that is used in Psycho, which shows an example of intertextuality. Another convention that is used is the white tiles and white shower curtains, these elements of the are also borrowed from the shower scene from Psycho.