Adaptation is spot on. Best, Norm Holland [log in to unmask] On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Barry Langford <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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 > ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html