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Chapters in this book

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

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Chapters in this book

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

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