Mimesis, movies, and media

Introduction -- Media and representation. On the one medium / Eric Gans -- The scapegoat mechanism and the media: beyond the folk devil paradigm / John O'Carroll -- The apocalypse will not be televised / Chris Fleming -- Film. Mirrors of nature: artificial agents in real life and virtual worlds...

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Contributors: Fleming, Chris 1970- (Editor) ; Hodge, Joel (Editor) ; Cowdell, Scott (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: New York London Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc 2015
In:Year: 2015
Reviews:[Rezension von: Mimesis, movies, and media] (2016) (Bartlett, Andrew, 1977 -)
[Rezension von: Mimesis, movies, and media] (2018) (Tripp, Jeffrey M., 1978 -)
Series/Journal:Violence, desire, and the sacred v. 3
Further subjects:B Mimesis in motion pictures
B Girard, René (1923-) Influence
B Motion Pictures Philosophy
B Electronic books
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Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
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Summary:Introduction -- Media and representation. On the one medium / Eric Gans -- The scapegoat mechanism and the media: beyond the folk devil paradigm / John O'Carroll -- The apocalypse will not be televised / Chris Fleming -- Film. Mirrors of nature: artificial agents in real life and virtual worlds / Paul Dumouchel -- Superheroes, scapegoats, and saviors: the problem of evil and the need for redemption / Joel Hodge -- Sanctified victimage on page and screen: The hunger games as prophetic media / Debra E. Macdonald -- The mimetic e-motion: from The matrix to Avatar / Nidesh Lawtoo -- Apocalypse of the therapeutic: The cabin in the woods and the death of mimetic desire / Peter Y. Paik -- Eyes wide shut: mimesis and historical memory in Stanley Kubrick's The shining / David Humbert -- Against romantic love: mimeticism and satire in Woody Allen's Vicky, Cristina, Barcelona; you will meet a tall dark stranger; and To Rome with love / Scott Cowdell -- A beautiful crisis: Ang Lee's film adaptation of The ice storm / Carly Osborn -- Cowboy metaphysics, the virtuous-enough cowboy, and mimetic desire in Stephen Fears' The hi-lo country / Thomas Ryba -- Television. The self in crisis: watching Mad men and Homeland with Girard and Hegel / Paolo Diego Bubbio -- Media, murder, and memoir: Girardian baroque in Robert Drewe's The shark net / Rosamund Dalziell -- Conversion in Dexter / Matthew John Paul Tan and Joel Hodge.
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:1501304879
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.5040/9781501304873