Intertextuality

Intertextuality is a term to describe the visual referencing between films. films borrow from each other and the audience may recognise some camea angles, aspcts of mise en scene, snippets of sound or methods of editing in some films that you have seen in others

for example; a number of films have reused or borrowed in some aspects the famous shower scene from Psycho ( 1960). equally other elements some films have browed too.

shower scene from Psycho

films that have borrowed aspects from Psycho;

what lies beneath

•  the mise en scene has been borrowed- the white bathroom, white bath- the running tap
• close- up of females face, contact with the eyes

Fatel attraction

• the mise en scene- white bathroom
• screams of a woman
• close up the knife
• fighting between the knife
• close up of dead woman in bath- contact with the eyes

however similar 'what lies beneath' there is moment where the camera focuses on the stillness of the woman in the bath.

The stepfather

• mise en scene- white bathroom
• close up of knife
• close uo of shower curtins being pulled down one by one
• souns effects of screaming woman