V for Vendetta as Cultural Pastiche: A Critical Study of the Graphic Novel and Film

ISBN-13: 9780786434671 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 247 str.

Aia James R. Keller

Opis

The 2005 James McTeigue and Wachowski Brothers film V for Vendetta represents a postmodern pastiche, a collection of fragments pasted together from the original Moore and Lloyd graphic novel of the same name, along with numerous allusions to literature, history, cinema, music, art, politics, and medicine. Since it is based upon a graphic novel, the film is from its very inception intertextual, paralleling the text from which it was derived while at the same time representing the authorial contributions of the many people and outside elements that played a significant role in shaping the film. This work identifies and examines the intersecting texts of V for Vendetta, with individual chapters providing localized readings of the storys specific intertextual components.