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Research Steps

Topic

Background�Research

Build an �Argument

Start with a film you like, or a question about film in general

Do broad searches to get a lay of the land, and deepen your own understanding

Consider how to build an argument, for example: Since (A) is true, and (B) is true, then (C) must also be true. Research A, B, and C separately, you’re building an argument out of pieces, you aren’t searching for someone else who already made the exact argument as a whole

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Metacinema as comedy narrative element: documentary & fiction

Micki Harrington

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Exit Through the Gift Shop

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Exit Through the Gift Shop

  • Resource & Quote:�Likewise, the UK premiere was staged in a makeshift theatre in the Leake Street Tunnel at Waterloo, a popular graffiti destination. Viewers were again handed spray-cans and invited to engage in the illicit activity of street art. Without doing anything himself, Banksy blurred the line between spectator, artist, and vandal.
  • Argun, E. (2024, January 2). Banksy’s exit through the gift shop. MyArtBroker. https://www.myartbroker.com/artist-banksy/articles/bansky-exit-through-the-giftshop
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Exit Through the Gift Shop

  • Resource & Quote: “Touching on contemporary cultural trends, the popular/high-art divide and celebrity obsession while showcasing world-renowned artists, "Exit" offers broad audience appeal, particularly for urban and international viewers captivated by underground art as well as film fans fascinated by unconventional narrative techniques.”

Lowe, Justin. "'Exit Through the Gift Shop'." Hollywood Reporter, vol. 413, no. 7, 27 Jan. 2010, p. 10. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A219580134/ITOF?u=les_main&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=1acab41e. Accessed 10 Oct. 2024.�

  • Resource & Quote: “Exit through the Gift Shop flags up some macromarketing issues involving the social implications of the production, consumption, and marketing of art. Examining how artists such as Banksy operate can provide a greater understanding of the social and cultural aspects of marketing in line with calls for a broader perspective where value is considered to be a less static and more dynamic attribute, being produced and consumed within a macro-level context (Brownlie and Hewer 2007; Fitchett and Saren 1998; Saren 2007). Much like his work, Banksy’s documentary is witty, subversive, and compelling. It provides an insider’s perspective on an art market whose workings are considered impenetrable by many.”

Preece, Chloe. “Media Review: A Banksy Film. Exit through the Gift Shop.” Journal of Macromarketing, vol. 32, no. 4, Dec. 2012, pp. 436–39. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.1177/0276146712449741.

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  • Resource & Quote: “The widespread speculation that “Exit Through the Gift Shop” is a hoax only adds to its fascination. An anonymous London graffiti artist named Banksy arrives to paint walls in Los Angeles. He encounters an obscure Frenchman named Thierry Guetta, who has dedicated his life to videotaping graffiti artists.”

Ebert, Roger Ebert. “Is It a Hoax If It’s Also Art? Movie Review (2010).” RogerEbert.Com, www.rogerebert.com/reviews/exit-through-the-gift-shop-2010. Accessed 10 Oct. 2024.

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Living in Oblivion

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  • “ "Oblivion" has a quirky three-part structure in which film, reality and fantasy double back on one another.”
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Living in Oblivion

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Meta-Cinema

  • “Not surprisingly. films about Hollywood interrogate the role of movies in our culture. In all these films. the self-examination is signified in moments of self-referentiality. the moments in which movies. through a variety of recurrent devices. call attention to themselves as movies and intentionally break or suspend the mimetic illusion. Accordingly. I focus on these moments of slippage. moments that reveal the "man behind the curtain" and emphasize the paradoxical nature of the movies about the movies.”

Ames, Christopher. Movies about the Movies : Hollywood Reflected, University Press of Kentucky, 1997. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/lesley/detail.action?docID=1915057.

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  • Resource & Quote:�Great films will make you forget all that entirely. Some will not make you move one bit (we’ve all been there). And then some, most probably belonging in the former category, will have some sort of tongue-in-cheek humour that lets you know that the filmmakers, and the characters are aware they are in a film.

Charles, Baptiste. “The Joys of Meta Cinema.” Raindance, 16 Mar. 2016, raindance.org/joys-meta-cinema/. �����

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Meta-Cinema

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  • Resource & Quote:�That these contemporary films gesture to a broader Chinese film discourse— both in terms of the institution of a star system generated by the film industry as a whole and in terms of allusions to specific movies— is emblematic of a certain degree of metacinematic self-referentiality reflecting a number of issues that warrant further discussion.
  • Stuckey, G. Andrew. Metacinema in Contemporary Chinese Film, Hong Kong University Press, 2018. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/lesley/detail.action?docID=5343634.
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Meta-Cinema

  • Resource & Quote:�“Metacinema is a specific variety of textual reflexivity that foregrounds, to a greater or lesser extent, the mechanisms involved in the creation or reception of film. 5 In general, metacinema may take two forms, which I will term production and consumption.” Stuckey, G. Andrew. Metacinema in Contemporary Chinese Film, Hong Kong University Press, 2018. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/lesley/detail.action?docID=5343634. Created from lesley on 2024-10-10 17:59:02.�
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Comedy: Not taking filmmaking seriously

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Adding Clips

If you find a Youtube video/clip you want to show, you can click “Share” to get a link that starts the clip at the second you want it to.

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In Google Slides, you have to Insert > Video, search for the Youtube video, and then in the settings (see screenshot ->) you can set the start/end time of the clip.

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