With its laser-focus on the requirements and structure of narrative,The Metanarrative Hall of Mirrorsis the first sustained comparative study of how images are created in prose and cinema. In film examples ranging fromCitizen KanethroughApocalypse NowtoBlade Runner 2049, then on to Christopher Nolan's 2020Tenet, Garrett Stewart tracks the shift from celluloid to digital cinema through various narrative approaches to the image, from freeze-frames to computer-generated special effects. By bringing these insights into dialogue with contemporary literature, Stewart discovers a common tendency in contemporary storytelling, in both prose and visual narrative, from the ongoing trend of "mind-game" films to the often puzzling narrative eccentricities of such different writers as Richard Powers and Nicholson Baker.The Metanarrative Hall of Mirrorsis an important new work for anyone studying contemporary fiction and film and how narrative works, on screen and page alike.