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We all know meta when we see it, but up until now few have attempted to define it. This terrific book, comprising essays from both established and emerging scholars, is a welcome corrective to that oversight, and a vital addition to contemporary film and media theory. * Catherine Wheatley, Reader in Film and Visual Culture, King's College London *

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David LaRocca is the author, editor, or co-editor of twelve books, including The Thought of Stanley Cavell and Cinema, The Philosophy of Documentary Film, The Philosophy of War Films, and The Philosophy of Charlie Kaufman. He has contributed book chapters on Werner Herzog, Terrence Malick, Michael Mann, Sofia Coppola, Casey Affleck, Kelly Reichardt, Errol Morris, Rithy Panh, Christopher Nolan, Spike Lee, Joel and Ethan Coen, Steven Spielberg, Robert Zemeckis, Tim Burton, and Charlie Kaufman. His articles have appeared in Afterimage, Conversations, Epoché, Estetica, Liminalities, Post Script, Transactions, Film and Philosophy, The Senses and Society, The Midwest Quarterly, Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, The Journal of Aesthetic Education, and The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. As a documentary filmmaker, he produced and edited six features in The Intellectual Portrait Series, directed Brunello Cucinelli: A New Philosophy of Clothes, and codirected New York Photographer: Jill Freedman in the City. He was Harvard's Sinclair Kennedy Traveling Fellow in the United Kingdom and participated in an NEH Institute, a workshop with Abbas Kiarostami, Werner Herzog's Rogue Film School, and the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell. He has taught philosophy and cinema and held visiting research and teaching positions at Binghamton, Cornell, Cortland, Harvard, Ithaca College, and Vanderbilt.

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