BUILDINGS

The British Museum was designed to recreate classic Greek architecture with it’s columns and pediment, it was also meant

to reflect the purpose of the building and the objects inside

This is a shop in my town meant to be like a futuristic pyramid

Cinema

Who Framed Roger Rabbit blurs the distinction between fiction and reality by having cartoon characters and real people in a world that is part cartoon part real world

Scary Movie refers to itself and various other films in the film and it is full of irony

TELEVISION

The office is full of irony and it also refers to itself as it is a mock documentary.There are multiple narratives, focusing on different characters lives.

The Simpsons always refers to other texts, it blurs the distinction between fiction and reality, it contains irony, there are multiple narratives and it occasionally refers to itself

ADVERTShttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XIa3C4a2Lw

This Revels advert was a spoof of the Russian roulette scenes in The Deer Hunter, that they are just eating revels adds irony

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnzFRV1LwIo

The Cadburys advert with the drumming gorilla refers to Phil Collins’ song and blurs the distinction between fiction and reality

MUSIC

A Tribe Called Quest’s ‘Can I Kick It’ contains various samples from other texts including the tune taken from ‘Walk On The Wild Side’ by Lou Reed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbDFS6cg1AI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wNknGIKkoA

The Prodigy’s ‘Out Of Space’ uses a sample from Max Romeo’s song ‘Chase The Devil’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uijFctBM47M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qriH-8yeqcE