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Metacinema and Meta Filmmaking
Metacinema, meta cinema, self-reflexive cinema or post modern cinema is a mode of filmmaking in which the film informs the audience that they are watching a work of fiction.
Metacinema is a fascinating way to tell stories. It’s also a buzzword that gets thrown around a lot, but it can be hard to understand exactly what it means and how it works. So, here’s the scoop: metacinema is any film — or other work of art — that makes reference to itself or another genre in order to comment on its own status as a piece of fiction or artifice.
Metacinema operates in many ways and on several levels: by calling attention to its status as an artificial construct, by inviting the audience to consider the artificiality of the cinematic form, and by encouraging an active, self-reflective viewer.
Meta Cinema
Metacinema or meta cinema, self-reflexive cinema or post modern cinema is a mode of filmmaking in which the film informs the audience that they are watching a work of fiction.
Metacinema
When it comes to telling stories, meta-cinema is a way you can tell your own story with some degree of artifice or irony. When it comes to making movies (or films or films about movies), meta-cinema is a way you can use metafiction and metanarrative techniques such as those described above — and others — to create a film that plays with narrative structure and conventions. It invites audiences into its world, celebrates cinema’s ability to transport viewers away from their everyday lives and allows them time out from their daily grinds. Meta cinema also encourages audiences to think about themselves as consumers of mass media…
