Meta in Film and Television Series / David Roche.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roche, David, 1930-2013, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Film criticism.

Motion pictures.

Television criticism.

Genre:

Television criticism and reviews.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 353 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2022]

Summary:

That's so meta!' The emergence of the prefix-turned-adjective 'meta' to describe media productions is, no doubt, symptomatic of an increasingly media-savvy audience; it has also drawn attention to the lack of scholarship on meta-phenomena in film and television studies.<br><br><i>Meta in Film and Television Series</i> aims to make up for this. Meta is defined as an intense form of reflexivity, that is characterized by its aboutness; meta-phenomena are not just an arsenal of devices but suppose an interpretive act and an active audience. Meta creates a framework with which to interrogate a work's relationship to its production, reception, medium, forms, and the world, and to explore its potentials and limitations. Meta supports the intuition latent in the popular usage that meta-phenomena are deeply entangled, while demonstrating that analysis stills requires such concepts to make sense of them.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgments

Preface

Part I The Theory and History of Meta

CHAPTER 1 What Is Meta and Who Uses the Term?

CHAPTER 2 How Does Meta Work?

CHAPTER 3 When, Where and Possibly Why Did Meta Appear?

Part II The Aboutness of Meta

CHAPTER 4 Industry and Creation

CHAPTER 5 Apparatus and Spectatorship

CHAPTER 6 Medium and Materiality

CHAPTER 7 Adaptation and Remake

CHAPTER 8 Genre

CHAPTER 9 Seriality

CHAPTER 10 History and Historiography

CHAPTER 11 Politics

Conclusion

Notes

Glossary of Meta-phenomena

Filmography

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 26 Oct 2023).

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Roche, David Meta in Film and Television Series

ISBN:

9781399508063

1399508067

9781399508056

1399508059

OCLC:

1371574257