3. If audience does not
get the references
they can still
understand the text.
If audience does get
them it flatters them,
and they may feel in
on the joke – another
‘pleasure of the text ‘
Intertextuality - meaning is given to a text by it referencing, knowingly,
other texts
5. EG: Thank U, Next
Intertextual references to 4 films:
● Mean Girls
● 13 Going on 30
● Bring it On
● Legally Blonde
● In addition – she references Iggy Azalea’s ‘Fancy’ video
6. Titanium has intertextual references to Steven
Spielberg films such as
● ET (1982)
● Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1978)
● Also in 2011 JJ Abrams directed a film SUPER 8
● which was supposed to be an homage to Steven Spielberg.
7. Spielberg's representation of the family
● The nuclear, functional family is
often torn apart.
● Spielberg introduces the
supernatural and extra-terrestrial into
domestic, suburban settings.
● He comments on family breakdown:
absent mothers / fathers and feelings
of abandonment.
● Children that feel alone and isolated.
Specify how this relates to Titanium
10. Ryan Lee (actor) from Super 8 (2011) (produced by Steven Spielberg)
During the summer of 1979, a group of friends witness a train crash and
investigate subsequent unexplained events in their small US town.
Using the same actor (Ryan Lee) helps enhance or even anchor the intertextual
references in Guetta’s video
11. How does the music relate to the visuals?
How do the lyrics relate to the visuals?
What representations of age are constructed?
Screen grab key shots and discuss aspects of the camerawork, lighting and
mise-en-scene to support your points.
Questions 1
12. Questions 2
What attitudes and values are represented?
How are audiences positioned by the text?
What effect(s) might the intertextual references have on meanings and
reception of the text?
14. Who is Sia?
● Along with other songs, "Titanium" was pulled from radio stations in the US
after the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
● In 2016 Sia gave an emotional performance of the song to help raise money
after the Florida shooting of 49 people in Pulse nightclub in Orlando.
15. Extend your understanding
You can relate some of the ideas from these articles to Titanium:
Spielberg - Close Encounters article
Spielberg - children and bicycles
Super 8 Article
Stranger Things and Spielberg
NB Stranger Things is one of our set texts next year
