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Intertextuality on Alice in Wonderland

What is Intertextuality ?
Intertextuality is when a text or film refers back to other texts or films to make the audience familiar with it or no make them more alert with what is going on.

The study of intertextuality includes:

• remakes, sequels, prequels within same media

• translations between media, e.g. novel to film, film to computer game (and vice versa)

• transition between genres, e.g. Seven Samurai remade as Magnificent Seven• relation of artefacts within a genre group, e.g. between different episodes of the same TV soap opera, or between different TV soap operas

The Alice in Wonderland is one of my childhood favorite disney cartoon movie. It was an adaptation of Lewis Carroll's novel. Not only cartoon but there are further more into film adaptation.

The intertextuality of Alice in Wonderland - the translations between media and remakes.

"The Development of Alice in Wonderland"

Alice's Adventure in Wonderland(1865) is a novel written by Lewis Carroll.

in 1951, it become a Disney cartoon movie that directed by Geronimi.C, JacksonW and Luske .H

in 1985, it become a movie that directed by Harry Harris

in 2010, another film adaption directed by Tim Burton

The most interesting part that i remember in the story or i called it 'happening' scene was when Alice follow a white rabbit into a rabbit hole and falls into a labyrinth, then, Alice passes through the door's keyhole and into a Wonderland. And Alice starts her adventure life in that Wonderland. Personally i feel that the small little door is the key scene that became a significant to this whole story because through the small door , she went into a different world.

In another cartoon movie , "Coraline" (2009) directed by Henry Sellick, that i found there some scene that is familiar with Alice in Wonderland that what intertextuality been applied.

Coraline is about a story of a lonely girl in a new home who had neglectful parents and found a door to a magical world.And her adventure life begins when she step into that magical world.

This is what i found it refer back to Alice in Wonderland the keyhole little door.

This is the other examples of images that i found online

which have the same idea/concept as Alice in Wonderland . "the small door"