CHAPTER 2 How Does Meta Work?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures viii
4. Acknowledgments xii
5. Preface xiii
6. Part I The Theory and History of Meta
7. CHAPTER 1 What Is Meta and Who Uses the Term? 3
8. CHAPTER 2 How Does Meta Work? 19
9. CHAPTER 3 When, Where and Possibly Why Did Meta Appear? 35
10. Part II The Aboutness of Meta
11. CHAPTER 4 Industry and Creation 61
12. CHAPTER 5 Apparatus and Spectatorship 92
13. CHAPTER 6 Medium and Materiality 122
14. CHAPTER 7 Adaptation and Remake 152
15. CHAPTER 8 Genre 180
16. CHAPTER 9 Seriality 205
17. CHAPTER 10 History and Historiography 232
18. CHAPTER 11 Politics 259
19. Conclusion 281
20. Notes 291
21. Glossary of Meta-phenomena 317
22. Filmography 318
23. Bibliography 323
24. Index 339