Metacinema
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Metacinema is a noun meaning (film) A mode of filmmaking in which the film informs the audience that they are watching a work of fiction.
Meaning
(film) A mode of filmmaking in which the film informs the audience that they are watching a work of fiction.
Example Sentences
In the years since, he has continued in that vein of clandestine metacinema, playing himself (in “Closed Curtain” and “Taxi”) less as a heroic auteur than as a curious, gentle, sometimes foolish middle-aged family man who can’t break the habit of turning life into film (or, to be precise, digital video).
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include microcinema, cinema, anticinema, machinima, docufiction, cinefilm.
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