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1. Presentation of relevant background, including other research, related to your project

1.                    Conradie Marthinus, “Anonymous vs. acknowledged intertexts: A relevance theoretic approach to intertextuality in print advertising”. It is about intertext in print advertising. There are some advertisements in Wall-E like pepsi. These advertisements are kind of intertext.

2.                    Conrich Ian, “Film’s Musical Moments”. There is a period that Wall-E looks the people in the TV dancing with the music. The music makes Wall-E feeling love.

3.                    Telotte.J.P，Animating Space From Mickey to WALL-E. Wall-E is a movie which discussing about the environment problem deeply. It is not only a story, but also a lesson to people.

4.                    As Murray Bobin.L “That’s All Folks? Ecocritical Readings of American Animated Features”. Up until the film’s end, the film provides a dystopic perspective in which wall-e acts as a comic hero who empowers an apathetic human race, transforming a hell on Earth into a home by following a narrative of environmental adaptation.

5.                    Pike Deider M, Enviro-Toons Green Themes in Animated Cinema and Television.

2. Discussion of the relevance/importance of your focus to (identify the “problem” or gap in

knowledge that your research will provide more information about)

Depart from Literature Review

Example: While Conradie Marthinus covers intertext and Murray Bobin.L covers the environment thinking, no one addresses the effect of intertext in Wall-E. I will address how the intertext work in Wall-E and the importance of the intertext in Wall- E. 

Example 2: Telotte.J.P discusses animating space in Wall-E, focusing on environment problem; however, she overlooks the aspect of what lesson the movie take to us. I will focus on the environment problem through intertext.

3. Clear statement of a research question to focus your analysis=what the analysis will show

I will focus on the intertext in Wall-E. I will focus on how the intertext work in the movie.

4. Clear identification & explanation of methods to conduct your research

Example: Using literary analysis, I will study the treatment of intertext in Wall-E.

5. Presentation and analysis of data or information (see requirements for short analysis essay)

Here is one instance of intertext happening in Wall-E. There is Pepsi’s advertisement in the earth. It shows many people live here. It represents human civilization. 

Here is another example of the dancing play with love song. Wall-E sees people dance on TV, and the bright and happy music is a kind of intertext. It creates romantic atmosphere. So it highlights that Wall-E’s alone. In this way, we would feel that Wall-E is lack of love.

Here is a third example of intertext in this. In reality, the plant is very normal. However, in the movie, the plant is invaluable. It is not only a plant but also the hope to the human.

6. Discussion of findings

     There is a post-apocalyptic landscape from which humans have been removed entirely, floating alone and isolated on a constructed space vessel. I find there are many intertextualities in Wall-E. These intertextualities help to develop the story and sharp the characters. The movie uses the intertext to define landscape and the people in it in order to make the movie vivid.

7. Conclusions that connect findings to the research question

Therefore, we can assume that the role of intertext inWall-E is to define landscape and the people in it in order to make the movie vivid.