Archive for the ‘metafilm’ tag
The Conventions of Unconventionality: An Overview of Metafiction
An overview of major themes I found while studying metafiction for the Metaclass, a self-study course for a masters of literature at San Francisco State University. This summary will also serve as a guide to the posts I have written over the last four months (with notes about a few others I intend to write). It is not meant to be a comprehensive list of meta conventions, but an addition to the the list found under Meta-Meta and Metafiction. (Nor is this intended to be a summary of themes I developed about writing and teaching, the metaclass aspect. Those themes may be found in Putting It All Together: Collaborative and Integrated Reading and Writing.)
Futurestates: A Metafilm
This short film is very meta as it plays with and blurs the distinctions between the fictional and the “real” world. There is no real distinction, you know. We filter all of our experiences of “reality” through a web of fictions and fictions are inarguably part of reality. Stories and films exist. Virtual reality is reality. Enjoy!
