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metacinema

metacinema noun: a mode of filmmaking in which the film informs the audience that they are watching a work of fiction.

Noun

metacinema (uncountable)

  1. A mode of filmmaking in which the film informs the audience that they are watching a work of fiction.
    • 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...2022 December 22, A. O. Scott, “‘No Bears’ Review: A Film That Critiques Itself”, in The New York Times

Origin of metacinema

From meta- + cinema.

Questions about metacinema

What does metacinema mean?
Metacinema means a mode of filmmaking in which the film informs the audience that they are watching a work of fiction.
What part of speech is metacinema?
Metacinema is a noun.

Words near metacinema in the dictionary

  1. metachronously
  2. metachrony
  3. metachrosis
  4. metachrotic
  5. metachurl
  6. metacinema
  7. metacinematic
  8. metacinematically
  9. metacingulum
  10. metacinnabar
  11. metacinnabarite

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