"Rise of the Revert: Metamodernist Aesthetics and Narrative in the Films of Quentin Tarantino and David Fincher”

This paper explores the contemporary trend of revert cinema through the recent films of Quentin Tarantino and David Fincher. As opposed to the remake or reboot, the revert offers a virtual return to the experience of a past time period mediated through digital cinema’s properties and potential that shares much with the contemporary cultural movement of metamodernism.