Eminem's music video for "Without Me" uses various techniques from intertextuality to breaking the fourth wall to parody and hyper-reality. It references many popular TV shows through costumes and scenes, such as ER, Batman, and reality shows. Eminem also directly engages with the camera, treating the audience as if he is rapping to them personally. The video parodies clips and storylines from movies and shows to comment on pop culture and create a satirical version of reality. Eminem's style blurs reality and fiction to craft a unique viewing experience for the audience.

1. Theories for Production
By Farida Travis & Elodie

2. Intertextuality
• Intertextuality is one text making
reference to another text.
• This post-modern theory is used in
Eminem’s video ‘Without me’. An
example of this is when Eminem acts as
patient and is lying down in a gurney
being pushed down the hospital hallway.
This is a reference to the popular
American medical drama ‘ER’.

3. Another example is when Eminem is dressed as
Elvis Presley dancing in a bathroom. On the
bottom-left hand corner there is the ‘E True
Story’ logo, however this is flipped backwards.
The video therefore references the well-known
TV channel ‘E’, which bases its channel on Pop
culture. As well as ‘E’ the video references the
popular American news channel ‘CNN’.

4. The video also references
American reality TV shows ‘The
real world’ and ‘Survivor’.

5. Breaking down the forth wall
• In the music video ‘Without me’
Eminem is breaking down the
forth wall by looking directly into
the camera whilst rapping. This
gives the illusion that he is
personally rapping to the
audience and building a
connection.

6. Parody/Hyper conscience
• A parody is a mocked version of a storyline or clip, in ‘Eminem –
without me’ we are able to see this. An example when Eminem
mocks Robin from the film Batman, while Dr. Dre mocked the
character Blade.
• “Without Me" was parodied on “All That”, a skit show on
Nickelodeon, as "Without Meat". It was also parodied on MADtv, a
skit show on FOX, as "What's on TV?".
• Eminem also dressed up in various costumes as Osama bin Laden as
he is chased by D12.
Hyper Conscience is when we are aware that it
is not reality, during Eminem without, Eminem
constantly reminds the audience that it is not
reality by using techniques such as ‘breaking
the forth wall’ and hyper Reality.

8. Eminem’s Music Video Technique
• When Eminem opens the music video he is mimicking
various TV shows from start to finish such as batman,
playboy mansion, reality shows and entertainment shows.
• The main thing what he does is that realizing that he does
something different to other rappers which is he talks
about life but makes it out to be a parody of the truth and
truth in the joke, vice versa.
• He has a one of a kind trend which makes his significant
skills as a rapper and social satirist because the rudeness
and gross-out humour in the music video were too detailed
for some to believe that it was anything but real.

9. Eminem’s Rap Flow
• Eminem is all about blurring the difference between reality
and fiction, humour and horror, satire and documentary, so it
makes perfect sense that what he shows in his music video is
no more or no less "real“.
• Eminem follows an order throughout his lyrics and kinds of
makes the audience engage in his own reality based on what
his experiences of life are and how without him it wouldn’t be
the same such as the lyric ‘Now this looks like a job for me so
everybody just follow me cause we need a little controversy
because it feels so empty without me’.

10. Reflection
• Every rapper has there own little twist based
on what they think life is about and they try to
create a reality out of it, Eminem makes his
music videos like a comedy