Have you considered Emir Kusturica's films? D. ---------------------------------------- > Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:13:26 -0500 > From: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [SCREEN-L] Metafictional Movies > To: [log in to unmask] > > I'm searching for examples of a rather specific kind of "metafictional" movie: > where a fictional narrative which either has been, or is in the process of being > created (written) by one of the characters features directly in the film, i.e. as > an interpolated dramatised sequence, or sequences. I'm not after backstage > musicals or plays-within-films (e.g., Bullets Over Broadway, Shakespeare In > Love) but fictions whose dramatisation occurs so to speak extra-diegetically. > > I'd expect that the fiction-within-the-film would have some critical or > commentary relationship to the frame narrative. However, I'm not looking for > literary pastiches where a given fictive mode is adopted wholesale in a > narrative ostensibly centring on a writer identified with that mode (e.g. > Hammett), but texts where the boundary between reality and fiction remains > clear if porous. > > The writer who obviously and consistently explores the kind of thing I'm > interested is Dennis Potter (The Singing Detective, Karaoke, etc.). The "Happy > Endings" sequence in New York, New York offers another take on the principle. > But I'm keen to accumulate further instances - suggestions gratefully received. > > Thanks in advance, Barry > > > Dr Barry Langford > Senior Lecturer in Film & Television Studies > Royal Holloway, University of London > [log in to unmask] > > ---- > Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite > http://www.ScreenSite.org > _________________________________________________________________ Use video conversation to talk face-to-face with Windows Live Messenger. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/connect_your_way.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_messenger_video_042008 ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html