I think we all witness and partake in Intertextual Performance everyday. It’s all around us. I’m constantly hearing references to movies, tv shows, song lyrics, or even simple YouTube videos. Whenever there is something I think is funny in a film or show and I experience something in life that reminds me of it, I almost instinctively reference it by giving a quote or something along those lines to give a reference.
Hypertextual Production has occurred to me most often when I’m involved in a theatre production. The last play I was involved in was The Crucible, but due to the lack of funds and a small space to work with, the play had to be changed. Some of the scenes in the script were taken out. Some scenes were changed by means of movement while others changed by totally rearranging the set to accommodate the stage. Hypertextual Production happens all the time with plays since no two stages are exactly the same and a number of other factors.
I just recently used the concept of Metatextual Discourse today actually. Yesterday I went to see the movie Horrible Bosses for the first time. I was extremely impressed with the film and thought it was one of the funniest movies I had seen in a long time. Today, as I was at my friends house I mentioned the movie and he wanted to know some details about it because he was on the fence since comedies tend to be a hit or miss thing these days. So I described a few really funny parts of the film to him and I told him the whole movie was pretty much that funny all the way through. I then told him the film was worth every penny and that I was definitely going to buy it once it came out on dvd. During this conversation, my friend used Referential Metatextual Discourse by asking me how the movie was to get an assessment on how good it was and I used Persuasive Metatextual Discourse by explaining that the film was worth the money and by recommending that he go see it.
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