First Name:
Samantha
Last Name:
Craig
Major Department:
English and Secondary Education
Thesis Director:
Leon Lewis
Date of Thesis:
May 2013
The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of the element of pastiche within the film Moulin Rouge as well as to find out the extent of the use of pastiche to other forms such as the palimpsest. Finally, plagiarism was examined in this study. A qualitative method was applied examining the various styles of pastiche, for example, adaptation, appropriation, collage, imitation, montage, parody, recycling, and travesty. This thesis inspected the idea of intertextuality between the hypertext and the hypotext within mythology, literature, art, architecture, and music. The opinion focused on whether or not plagiarism and copyright laws affect the use of pastiche in different forms of art. The results of the study were that Moulin Rouge is a complex film that covers many forms of pastiche, a combination piece consisting of materials, techniques, forms, and/or motifs borrowed from one or more sources, including palimpsest which does the same while letting bits of the original appear in the text. It was discovered that the film gives the audience reason to question the logistics of plagiarism within the film because pastiche is about closeness to a text and is not distinct about the separation between the hypotext and the hypertext. However, the hypotext can only be imitated when the hypertext practices its style.