This book looks closely at character development and how linguistics and dialogue furthers the development of the characters. The book specifically looks at Gilmore Girls and the dialogue within the show. This will help me as I discuss the intertextuality within the dialogue and will help support my argument that the intertextuality in the episode and the show as a whole furthers character development and audience perception.
Berger, John, Sven Blomberg, Chris Fox, Michael Dibb, and Richard Hollis. Ways of
Seeing. London: BBC and Penguin, n.d. Print.
In my essay, I will look at intertextuality in Gilmore Girls. The particular episode I will be examining “The Festival of Living History,” is centered on references to famous works of art. In chapter 7 of “Ways of Seeing,” John Berger looks at oil paintings that have been reproduced in publicity images. People use this technique in order to create a “frank pastiche” which “suggests a cultural authority, a form of
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This work looks at intertextuality within the context of television and the millennial generation and how pop culture working with in television aimed at millennial audiences uses intertextuality. This work is also interesting in that it focuses specifically on the WB, the network station where Gilmore Girls premiered. Hodge examines Dawson’s Creek and the idea of “cross-generational programming (75). Hodge writes that the WB used “intertextuality, nostalgia, and mature dialogue” in order to grant Dawson’s Creek legitimacy (75). It can be argued that this same tactic was used for Gilmore Girls as the dialogue and intertextual references were used not only to give the show legitimacy in the eyes of the audience, but even within the show itself. I will use this to inform my argument about intertextuality in television as well as situate Gilmore Girls within the larger narrative of early 21st century