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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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Bloomsbury Academic
2016
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Violence, desire, and the sacred (volume 3)
Year: 2016 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Mimesis, movies, and media] (2018) (Tripp, Jeffrey M., 1978 -)
[Rezension von: Mimesis, movies, and media] (2016) (Bartlett, Andrew, 1977 -) |
| Edition: | Paperback edition |
| Series/Journal: | Violence, desire, and the sacred
volume 3 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Girard, René 1923-2015
B Mimesis B Desire B Scapegoat / Scapegoat theory |
| Further subjects: | B
Mimesis in motion pictures
B Motion Pictures Philosophy B Girard, René (1923-2015) Influence |
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Table of Contents (Publisher) |
| 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 |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | XI, 241 Seiten, Illustrationen, 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 978-1-5013-2437-6 978-1-62892-464-0 |
