metacinema

English

Etymology

From meta- +‎ cinema.

Noun

metacinema (uncountable)

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