Comedy legend Larry Charles jumped right into the deep end with his directorial debut Masked and Anonymous, which is part psychodrama, a cinematic "
meta-fiction" starring Bob Dylan.
In a moment of
meta-fiction, the fictional band The Archies (composed of Archie, Jughead, Betty, Veronica and Reggie) had an actual No.
Though deceptively casual on its surface, "Clouds of Sils Maria" marks his daring rejoinder, a multilayered, femme-driven
meta-fiction that pushes all involved--including next-gen starlets Kristen Stewart and Chloe Grace Moretz--to new heights.
This is particularly positive since he builds fiction from
meta-fiction, avoiding the typical traps of our abundantly solipsistic times.
*** Seven Psychopaths (15)
Meta-fiction runs riot as alcoholic struggling screenwriter Colin Farrell's titular script finds him involved with psycho killers real as well as fictional, the line between the two blurring in a convoluted plot when Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell kidnap mobster Woody Harrelson's Shih Tzu.
He acknowledges that Roland Barthes's "death of the author" (120) was popular for a time, and his method of explaining literary texts became a blueprint for writing fiction but he refutes point blank this sort of
meta-fiction and argues that it in fact subverts fiction.
The short-story is understood as the literary form par excellence to capture modernism's fleeting attitude toward life, while postmodern short-story-telling returns a sense of renewal through literary innovation and
meta-fiction. The contributors provide overviews of modernist and postmodernist theories of the short story with examples from mostly British-oriented stories explore questions of of autonomy, subjectivity, experimentalism, fragmentation, visuality, sensuality, and post-coloniality.
"Amazon.com and the New
Meta-Fiction" surveys the ironic and sarcastic comments found on the e-tailer's site.
The self-conscious, self-referential narrator firmly grounds Tropic of Cancer in the realm of
meta-fiction. That confusion in the mind of the reader is a deliberate device used by the author to push the reader away from the text, to force it to be held at arm's-length, euphemistically.
Stephan has collated and scrambled these -- the original audio and video of most sequences are unhinged from one another and redeployed -- to make a
meta-fiction of Hosni from her multiple film personas.