Gérard Genette is a French literature theorist which most well known for his theory of transtextuality. Originally transtextuality has five sub groups. Four of them which are intertextuality, architextuality, metatextuality, and hypotextuality can be applied into films. Genette took the general idea of intertextuality and changed it to the “co-presence of two or more texts”, quotations being the most common example for this. Architextuality refers to the position of the text. Either directly or indirectly into a generic category due to its title, even before the audience has seen the work. Metatextuality is the relation between one text and another, whether the text is clearly cited or just referred to. Finally, hypertextuality refers to the relationship between two which transforms, modifies, elaborates, or extends the hypotext.
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