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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-101399508032

ISBN-139781399508032

eBay Product ID (ePID)23057281601

Product Key Features

Number of Pages376 Pages

Publication NameMeta in Film and Television Series

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2022

SubjectFilm / Référence, Film / Direction & Production, Film / History & Criticism

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPerforming Arts

AuthorDavid Roche

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2023-553668

ReviewsDavid Roche is one of the best film theorists. His Meta in Film and Television Series is the most comprehensive study dedicated to metacinema and metafilms. It is a crowning achievement dwelling with a considerable number of examples, always lightened by David Roche's free ruminative thought., In this impressive study Roche weaves together numerous strands of thought on the 'meta' and reflexive in cinema, television and media culture, with admirable clarity and focus. Full of insightful analysis of a diverse corpus of moving-image works - and engaging with important non-English language scholarship - this timely, indeed longoverdue, book will no doubt be a standard point of reference on a perennially fascinating topic., Offers a thorough and comprehensive analysis of a concept that has become ubiquitous in both academic and popular discourse. It is an invaluable resource for film scholars who will appreciate the precision of Roche's epistemological approach in the first part, film students who will marvel at the numerous hermeneutic applications of meta, and cinephiles/"seriephiles" who will commend the extensive knowledge Roche demonstrates and the fluidity of his writing. Erudite and complex while remaining accessible--a quality not all scholarly works possess., In this impressive study Roche weaves together numerous strands of thought on the 'meta' and reflexive in cinema, television and media culture, with admirable clarity and focus. Full of insightful analysis of a diverse corpus of moving-image works - and engaging with important non-English language scholarship - this timely, indeed long?overdue, book will no doubt be a standard point of reference on a perennially fascinating topic.

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal791.43

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments ForewordPart I: The Theory and History of Meta1. What Is Meta and Who Uses the Term?2. How Does Meta Work?3. When, Where and Possibly Why Did it Appear?Part II: The Aboutness of Meta4. Industry and Creation5. Apparatus and Spectatorship6. Medium and Materiality7. Adaptation and Remake8. Genre9. Seriality10. History and Historiography11. PoliticsConclusionNotes Glossary of Meta-Phenomena Filmography Bibliography Index

Synopsis"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. Meta in Film and Television Series 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.

LC Classification NumberPN1994