Metafilm

Similar to metafiction in technique, metafilm is a style of film-making which presents the film as a story about film production.

Examples of films of this type include:

• 8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963)
• Adaptation. (Spike Jonze, 2002)
• Day for Night (François Truffaut, 1973)
• Le Mépris (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
• The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1973)
• Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas, 1996)
• Living in Oblivion (Tom DiCillo, 1995)
• Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
• Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, 1960)
• Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)
• Tropic Thunder (Ben Stiller, 2008)
• Galaxy Quest (Dean Parisot, 1999)
• On The Road With Judas (J.J. Lask, 2007)
• Wes Craven's New Nightmare (Wes Craven, 1994)
• Scream 3 (Wes Craven, 2000)
• A Cock and Bull Story (Michael Winterbottom, 2006)