When a film adaptation utilizes 'meta-adaptation' strategies, what is it primarily doing?
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Correct answer: Self-reflexively commenting on the process and clichés of adaptation inside the film
Meta-adaptation occurs when a film turns inward to comment on its own adapted nature. A premier example is Charlie Kaufman's 'Adaptation.' (2002), which dramatizes the writer's agonizing intellectual paralysis while trying to adapt a non-fiction book. This strategy exposes the constructed nature of screenwriting, subverting Hollywood narrative expectations.
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