Mise en abyme (Narration) (Topical Term)

Work cat.: 2001325512: La mise en abyme filmique, c2000.

Glossary of contemporary lit. theory, 1992 (generally involves the recurring internal duplication of images of an artistic whole, such that an infinite series of images disappearing into invisibility is produced; mirror-text)

Internet, URL: www.geocities.com/l̃ezard/lexicon/m/mise.html, Jan. 18, 2002 (a narrative infinite regress; used by Robert Altman in The player, a movie depicting how and why the movie itself is made; the logic of the narrative is built on its own self-reflexivity)