Abstract
This article examines David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive from Kristeva’s concept of intertextuality. To achieve this aim, this study provides a close reading of the selected film so as to trace and illustrate the polyphonic network of references, citations, quotations and intertexts of Mulholland Drive to the significant already-made films such as Sunset Boulevard, The Wizard of Oz, and Persona.
Highlights
The origin of intertextuality lies in the theories and philosophies of the key figure of Russian Formalist School Mikhail Bakhtin whose works were unknown to literary critics due to the political censorship and social oppression of his time
Bakhtin found a new alternative to Saussaurian theory of language by stressing the overlooked fact of his language theory, the social aspect
For Bakhtin, the social situation of language users plays a crucial part in shaping the parole of the given language system; in better words, “language exists in social situations between actual speakers” (Allen, 2003, p.80)
Summary
The origin of intertextuality lies in the theories and philosophies of the key figure of Russian Formalist School Mikhail Bakhtin whose works were unknown to literary critics due to the political censorship and social oppression of his time. To Bakhtin, as Allen remarked “All utterance are dialogic, their meaning and logic dependent upon what previously been said and CINEJ Cinema Journal: Mulholland Drive: An Intertextual Reading
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