Godfellas Presentation TV Cultures
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Transcript of Godfellas Presentation TV Cultures
HOW THE THEME WAS COVERED
MAIN PLOT
BENDER BECOMES A GOD FIGURE
(SERIOUS SIDE OF RELIGION)
SUB PLOT
FRY SEARCHING FOR BENDER
(LIGHTER SIDE OF RELIGION)
THE USE OF INTERTEXTUAL REFERENCES IN TV
“THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SIMULATIONS AND THEIR
ORIGINALS IS NOT SIMPLE OR STRAIGHTFORWARD, AS IT IS
OFTEN INTERTEXTUAL IN NATURE, INVOLVING PLAGIARISM,
QUOTATION, PARODY, AND INTERTEXTUAL HUMOUR.
UMBERTO ECO HAS TERMED THESE PRACTICES „AESTHETICS
OF SERIALITY‟” (NAFICY, 1989)
„PLAYING GOD‟ IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE
NERD THEOLOGY - KEVIN KELLY
“WE HAVE BECOME MINI-GODS. AND THUS WE SEEK GOD BY
CREATING GODS”
REFERENCES
“In Praise of Cultural Imperialism?”, by David
Rothkopf, Foreign Policy no. 107, Summer 1997, pp.
38–53