Metacinema : the form and content of filmic reference and reflexivity / edited by David LaRocca.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

LaRocca, David, 1975- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--History.

Motion pictures.

Film within a film.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

In ten new essays on a selection of vital canonical films, contributors chart, explore, and advance the ways in which metacinema is at once a mode of filmmaking and a heuristic for studying cinematic attributes.

Contents:

cover

Metacinema

Copyright

Contents

Foreword: The Cinematic Question-​"What Do You Want from Me?"

Contributors

Introduction: An Invitation to the Varieties and Virtues of "Meta-​ness" in the Art and Culture of Film

part 1

1 Cinematic Self-​Consciousness in Hitchcock's Rear Window

2 Adaptations, Refractions, and Obstructions: The Prophecies of André Bazin

3 A Metacinematic Spectrum: Technique through Text to Context

4 Recursive Reflections: Types, Modes, and Forms of Cinematic Reflexivity

5 Méliès, Astruc, and Scorsese: Authorship, Historiography, and Videographic Styles

part 2

6 8½: Self-​Reflexive Fiction and Mental Training

7 Clouds of Sils Maria: True Characters and Fictional Selves in the Construction of Filmic Identities

8 Holy Motors: Metameditation on Digital Cinema's Present and Future

part 3

9 Fight Club: Enlivenment, Love, and the Aesthetics of Violence in the Age of Trump

10 Funny Games: Film, Imagination, and Moral Complicity

11 Shoah: Art as Visualizing What Cannot Be Grasped

par 4

12 The Act of Killing: Empathy, Morality, and Re-​Enactment

13 Waltz with Bashir's Animated Traces: Troubled Indexicality in Contemporary Documentary Rhetorics

14 Alone., Again: On Martin Arnold's Metaformal Invention by Intervention

Acknowledgments

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780190095383

0190095385

9780190095376

0190095377

OCLC:

1260348214