Assignment 1: Something

Postmodern By Shivonne Weekes

Family Guy

• http://youtu.be/H5OSOkwv9po

Intertextuality • Parody - is an imitative

work created to mock, comment on an original work.

• Family Guy used a reference which was 'Taken'. Family guy mostly do parodies which they tend to mock other films.

• This was a parody because they were imitating 'Taken'

Intertextuality

Nostalgia • Nostalgia - using remakes

to create distracting entertainment

• This shows that films can be recycled as you can see in Family Guy they used 'Taken'

• This shows that nowadays there are hardly any new ideas.

Hybridity/Bricolage• In Family Guy there is a lot of

hybridity.

• It's an Animation Comedy Programme

• In this episode it has comedy because it's mocking the reference.

• Also it has action because there is kidnap scene and they look for the kidnappers

• Also they have two elements that already exist which is Family Guy and Taken which has been merged together