| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 330 pages) |
| Contents |
Foreword: The Cinematic Question-"What Do You Want from Me?" / Robert B. Pippin -- Introduction: An Invitation to the Varieties and Virtues of "Meta-ness" in the Art and Culture of Film / David LaRocca -- Cinematic Self-Consciousness in Hitchcock's Rear Window / Robert B. Pippin -- Adaptations, Refractions, and Obstructions: The Prophecies of André Bazin / Timothy Corrigan -- A Metacinematic Spectrum: Technique through Text to Context / Garrett Stewart -- Recursive Reflections: Types, Modes, and Forms of Cinematic Reflexivity / Daniel Yacavone -- Méliès, Astruc, and Scorsese: Authorship, Historiography, and Videographic Styles / Eleni Palis -- 8½: Self-Reflexive Fiction and Mental Training / Joshua Landy -- Clouds of Sils Maria: True Characters and Fictional Selves in the Construction of Filmic Identities / Laura T. Di Summa -- Holy Motors: Metameditation on Digital Cinema's Present and Future / Ohad Landesman -- Fight Club: Enlivenment, Love, and the Aesthetics of Violence in the Age of Trump / J. M. Bernstein -- Funny Games: Film, Imagination, and Moral Complicity / Paul Schofield -- Shoah: Art as Visualizing What Cannot Be Grasped / Shoshana Felman -- The Act of Killing: Empathy, Morality, and Re-Enactment / Thomas E. Wartenberg -- Waltz with Bashir's Animated Traces: Troubled Indexicality in Contemporary Documentary Rhetorics / Yotam Shibolet -- Alone., Again: On Martin Arnold's Metaformal Invention by Intervention / David LaRocca |
| Summary |
"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, referred to reflexivity in films, it is only here, for the first time, that a group of leading and emerging film theorists joins to directly and systematically address with clarity and rigor the meanings and implications of the meta for cinema. In ten new essays and a selection of vital canonical works, 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 we have here, then, 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. Since metacinema has become an increasingly prominent cultural phenomenon--a kind of art and logic familiar to everyday experience around the world--its abundance and pervasiveness draws our attention. With more and more films expressing reflexivity, recursion, reference to other films, mise en abîme, seriality, and exhibiting related intertextual traits, the time is overdue for the kind of capacious yet nuanced critical study now in hand"--Publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on February 10, 2022) |
| Subject |
Film within a film.
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Motion pictures -- History.
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Film within a film
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Motion pictures
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
LaRocca, David, 1975- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780190095376 |
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0190095377 |
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9780190095383 |
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0190095385 |
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