Metafilm
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Similar to metafiction in technique, the style of the film-making shows that the film is a metaphor about the production of the film and that the audience is tied in with the drama unfolding on the screen. Examples of this would be François Truffaut's Day for Night, Jean-Luc Godard's Le Mepris and Michael Powell's Peeping Tom.
An example of a comparable technique in theater would be Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello and Living in Oblivion by Tom DiCillo.