Metacinema the form and content of filmic reference and reflexivity
When a work of art shows an interest in its own status as a work of art―either by reference to itself or to other works―we have become accustomed to calling this move "meta." While scholars and critics have, for decades, acknowledged reflexivity in films, it is only in Metacinema, for the...
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Oxford University Press
2021
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | When a work of art shows an interest in its own status as a work of art―either by reference to itself or to other works―we have become accustomed to calling this move "meta." While scholars and critics have, for decades, acknowledged reflexivity in films, it is only in Metacinema, for the first time, that a group of leading and emerging film theorists join to enthusiastically debate the meanings and implications of the meta for cinema. In new essays on generative films, including Rear Window, 8 1/2, Holy Motors, Funny Games, Fight Club, and Clouds of Sils Maria, contributors chart, explore, and advance the ways in which metacinema is at once a mode of filmmaking and a heuristic for studying cinematic attributes. What results is not just an engagement with certain practices and concepts in widespread use in the movies (from Hollywood to global cinema, from documentary to the experimental and avant-garde), but also the development of a veritable and vital new genre of film studies. With more and more films expressing reflexivity, recursion, reference to other films, mise-en-abîme, seriality, and exhibiting related intertextual and intermedial traits, the time is overdue for the kind of capacious yet nuanced critical study found in Metacinema. |
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| Beschreibung: | Enthält 14 Beiträge |
| Beschreibung: | xiv, 330 Seiten 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780190095345 978-0-19-009534-5 9780190095352 978-0-19-009535-2 |