Metacinema
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Similar to metafiction in technique, the style of the film-making shows that the film is a metaphor about the production of the film and that the audience is tied in with the drama unfolding on the screen. Similar to metafiction in technique, metafilm is a style of film-making which presents the film as a story about film production. Examples of this would be Federico Fellini's 8½, François Truffaut's Day for Night, Jean-Luc Godard's Le Mepris, Spike Jonze's Adaptation., Tom DiCillo's Living in Oblivion, Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain, Wes Craven's New Nightmare, Michael Powell's Peeping Tom, David Lynch's Mulholland Drive, Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York.
An example of a comparable technique in theater would be Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello and Living in Oblivion by Tom DiCillo.
Another example of metafilm is the use of film within a film, used as a plot device in such films as Circuito chiuso.
Examples of films
- 8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963)
- Adaptation. (Spike Jonze, 2002)
- Day for Night (François Truffaut, 1973)
- Le Mépris (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
- The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1973)
- Living in Oblivion (Tom DiCillo, 1995)
- Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
- Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, 1960)
- Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)
- Tropic Thunder (Ben Stiller, 2008)
- Galaxy Quest (Dean Parisot, 1999)
- On The Road With Judas (J.J. Lask, 2007)
- Wes Craven's New Nightmare (Wes Craven, 1994)
- Scream 3 (Wes Craven, 2000)
- A Cock and Bull Story (Michael Winterbottom, 2006)
See also
- Self-reference
- Meta-
- Meta-reference
- Metafiction
- Metatheatre
- Metalanguage
- Meta-discussion
- Meta-joke
- Metaknowledge
- Story-within-a-story
- Show-within-a-show
- Fourth wall
- Aside
- Prologue
- Epilogue
- Induction
- Frame story
- Frame tale
- Fictional fictional character
