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Patrick Jannings Yr 12 KEYS HOUSE

English assignment 3A

Q.4 Visual texts are always intertextual. Discuss this notion referring to your viewing experiences this year.

Texts are never viewed in isolation as we always view it through the prism of our previous encounters. Producers of visual texts rely on the viewers experiences to consume themselves in the text. The famous writer Michel Foucault once said that “a text is caught up in a system of references to other books, other texts, other sentences: it is a node within a network” The concept of intertextuality has definitely been taken into account in the production of the films “the Wind that Shakes the Barley”.

In order to understand how the producer conveys his meaning and themes you must first fully understand the methods of construction and how these convey attitudes and values. In film a producer may use technical, symbolic, audio or written codes to convey his meaning of the text.

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