metacommentary

The metacommentary on and presumed repudiation of his screen persona (in addition to his final vocal performance over the end credits) all mark Gran Torino as an intensely personal film.

Matthew Yglesias » Conservatives’ Bizarre Readings of Gran Torino 2009

I agree with you to a certain point about the metacommentary.

What I bought – 30 January 2008 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

You see metacommentary, I see mining the past, which seems to me necessitates some metacommentary, because we've all moved on from those days.

What I bought – 30 January 2008 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

There was a time when a text was not just the words written on a page but the cloud of commentary which enveloped it, with sometimes added rings of metacommentary as authors, scholars, and critics participated in a centuries-long conversation over every last iota of content.

The comment sphere « BuzzMachine 2006

The perfect fit for the reality bending metacommentary that Morrison was doing.

Comic Book Alphabet of Cool! | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

I think the main problem with Morrison these days is that he's stuck in metacommentary.

What I bought – 30 January 2008 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

The issue in which Shrapnel shows up in Seattle and Ollie narrates how much the wall he'd tried to maintain between his old life and his new one was crumbling down was one of the nicer bits of self-aware metacommentary I'd seen.

Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #150 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

CS Lewis said something about that in metacommentary about the Screwtape Letters the introduction, maybe?

I’m Willing to Bet The Reporter Was Snickering His Head Off as He Wrote This Lede « Whatever 2007

Even Guillory cannot deny that de Man gets the themes of necessity and chance from Proust's own metacommentary, and, via that commentary, from a broader Western and romantic aesthetic tradition: a commentary and a tradition that de Man is reading.

Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man 2005

And Alfred explicitly retraining Bruce Wayne to be a playboy, it all felt like it was trying too hard to be metacommentary on the new Bruce Wayne depiction in the comics kind of like Morrison was saying We as writers have to work harder to retrain ourselves to write Bruce Wayne.

Batman #655 Review | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2003