Aspects of intertextuality in fantasy adaptation through the lord of the rings, Harry Potter and Game of Thrones

Abstract EN

In an epoch saturated with alleged innovativeness and novelty, intertextuality confuted these assumptions by giving a new roadmap to the intersection and interaction of different texts.

Though its initial concentration had been oriented towards literary texts, the theory has set a massive step in the cinematic realm with a myriad of motion pictures.

Cinema on the other hand, has proved to imitate the pre-existent social and literary poetics tremendously, conceptualizing a patent intertwined and intertextual relation with previous texts, movies, and discourses.

The fantasy genre with its different borrowed hints and nodal images is no exception.

Therefore, as a subject of scrutiny, this paper seeks to investigate the intertextual utterances utilized in most major fantasy blockbusters.