Published 2014-07-01
Keywords
- metacinema,
- film within a film,
- intertextuality,
- allusion,
- cinematic reflexivity
- film reflexivity. ...More
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Abstract
A constant feature among cinephilic filmmakers is to reflect on cinema through their filmmaking. This reflexive practice, metacinema, can take numerous forms, as the history of cinema demonstrates. This feature compels us, if we want to have a better understanding of this practice, to propose a classification of the strategies that have been applied in the past and to analyse how they continue to be used in contemporary filmmaking, and this is the aim of this article. My starting point is the classification posited by Jacques Gerstenkorn in 1987, updated in 2008 by Jean-Marc Limoges, proposing that metacinematic practices can be split into two generic categories: “cinematic reflexivity” on one hand, and on the other, “filmic reflexivity”, the first focused more on cinematic processes and mechanisms, and the second on film history.
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