[Commlist] New book: Meta in Film and Television Series

*Roche, David. /Meta in Film and Television Series/. Edinburgh 
University Press, 2022. 376p. ISBN 9781399508032*
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-meta-in-film-and-television-series.html 
<https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-meta-in-film-and-television-series.html>


        The first book-length study of meta-phenomena in film and
        television series

  * Works discussed include: /Sunset Blvd., Fellini Roma, Twin Peaks,
    Scream, Community/, and /NO/
  * Explores the theory and history of meta
  * Provides methodology for the analysis of meta-phenomena

“That’s so meta!” The emergence of the prefix-turned-adjective “meta” to 
describe media productions is, no doubt, symptomatic of an increasingly 
media-savvy audience; it has also drawn attention to the lack of 
scholarship on meta-phenomena in film and television studies.

/Meta in Film and Television Series/ aims to make up for this. Meta is 
defined as an intense form of reflexivity, that is characterized by its 
aboutness; meta-phenomena are not just an arsenal of devices but suppose 
an interpretive act and an active audience. Meta creates a framework 
with which to interrogate a work’s relationship to its production, 
reception, medium, forms, and the world, and to explore its potentials 
and limitations. Meta supports the intuition latent in the popular usage 
that meta-phenomena are deeply entangled, while demonstrating that 
analysis stills requires such concepts to make sense of them.

    In this impressive study Roche weaves together numerous strands of
    thought on the ‘meta’ and reflexive in cinema, television and media
    culture, with admirable clarity and focus. Full of insightful
    analysis of a diverse corpus of moving-image works – and engaging
    with important non-English language scholarship – this timely,
    indeed long　overdue, book will no doubt be a standard point of
    reference on a perennially fascinating topic.

    – /Daniel Yacavone, University of Edinburgh/

    David Roche is one of the best film theorists. His /Meta in Film and
    Television Series/ is the most comprehensive study dedicated to
    metacinema and metafilms. It is a crowning achievement dwelling with
    a considerable number of examples, always lightened by David Roche's
    free ruminative thought.

    – /Marc Cerisuelo, author of Hollywood à l'écran : les métafilms
    américains/

David Roche, a 2022–7 IUF member, is Professor of Film Studies at 
Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, France and President of SERCIA. He 
is the author of /Quentin Tarantino: Poetics and Politics of Cinematic 
Metafiction/ and /Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s/, 
and has co-edited several collected volumes, including /Women Who Kill: 
Gender and Sexuality in Film and Series of the Post-Feminist Era/ (with 
Cristelle Maury) and /Transnationalism and Imperialism: Endurance of the 
Global Western Film/ (with Hervé Mayer).

*Contents*

Acknowledgements
Foreword

Part I: The Theory and History of Meta

1. What Is Meta and Who Uses the Term?

2. How Does Meta Work?

3. When, Where and Possibly Why Did it Appear?

Part II: The Aboutness of Meta

4. Industry and Creation

5. Apparatus and Spectatorship

6. Medium and Materiality

7. Adaptation and Remake

8. Genre

9. Seriality

10. History and Historiography

11. Politics

Conclusion

Notes
Glossary of Meta-Phenomena
Filmography
Bibliography
Index


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