Narrative Madness
The Quixotic Quest for Reality
Metafilms are to movies what metafiction is to literature. It is a style of cinematography whose main subject is the act of film production itself, exposing to the audience the inner workings of the art.
Still from 1960’s Peeping Tom
This style of movie making can be categorized in two distinct groups and a third one containing all the movies that fall in between.
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