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...those parodies had a dominant fairy-tale tradition to rebel against. The strange side effect of today's meta-stories is that kids get exposed to the parodies before, or instead of, the originals. My two sons (ages 2 and 5) love The Three Pigs, a storybook by David Wiesner in which the pigs escape the big bad wolf by physically fleeing their story (they fold a page into a paper airplane to fly off in). It's a gorgeous, fanciful book. It's also a kind of recursive meta-fiction that I didn't encounter before reading John Barth...
...conversation eventually moved on, and questions petered out. After he left, reporters discussed his apology and his excuse. No one was satisfied: "How's admitting he wanted to keep a particular story alive 'straight talk'? Maybe it's 'meta straight talk...
...It’s what makes “Planet Terror” a good zombie-movie send up and not a really bad zombie snoozefest.Tarantino, on the other hand, flips the genre on its head instead of blissfully sending it up, over-reaching with a pretentious brand of meta-cinema that leaves his segment a little less hyperkinetic and a lot more joyless than Rodriguez’s. It mixes a slasher film with car chases, which basically means that the film starts out being one thing but ends up being something else entirely.The film revolves around a psychotic...
...Aesthetics has its own meta-politics,” Burgin said...
Demography As Destiny Everyone arrived in Davos ready to talk about climate change, and plenty did. But for me, another meta-theme - much less evident on the formal program - kept cropping up in interesting ways. That was the idea that, as population continues to grow in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, even as the population in Europe stagnates at best, so huge and unpredictable political and economic power swings may follow. Certainly, the Indians present - this was the second year running that they provided a huge contingent, and threw some of the best parties, too - had the sort...