Terminologies

Intertextuality: The way, in which film texts refer to and relate with other texts, assuming that the audience will recognise those suggestions.
Parody: Mocking in a critical and playful way
Post-feminism: a position that suggests that women should take respect and equality for granted after the success of the 1960s and 1970s feminist struggles, and should enjoy the ironic and playful pleasures associated with traditional ‘femininity’.
Postmodernism: the social, political and cultural attitudes of production and consumption of film products in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The term carries several meanings but is usually associated with the self-reflexivity of contemporary culture and media.
Self-reflective: texts which display an awareness of their own artificial status as texts.
Self-referential: a text that makes a reference back to itself, usually in a self-ionising and playful way.
Pastiche: texts which are made up from different sources, favouring practises of copying or simulation and rejection authenticity. The term is often used negatively for texts that do not display originality; an approach that has, however, been revised by many theorists.