Mimetic Theory and Film
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Mimetic Theory and Film

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Mimetic Theory and Film

About this book

The interdisciplinary French-American thinker René Girard (1923-2015) has been one of the towering figures of the humanities in the last half-century. The title of René Girard's first book offered his own thesis in summary form: romantic lie and novelistic truth [ mensonge romantique et vérité romanesque ]. And yet, for a thinker whose career began by an engagement with literature, it came as a shock to some that, in La Conversion de l'art, Girard asserted that the novel may be an "outmoded" form for revealing humans to themselves. However, Girard never specified what, if anything, might take the place of the novel. This collection of essays is one attempt at answering this question, by offering a series of analyses of films that aims to test mimetic theory in an area in which relatively little has so far been offered. Does it make any sense to talk of vérité filmique? In addition, Mimetic Theory and Film is a response to the widespread objection that there is no viable "Girardian aesthetics." One of the main questions that this collection considers is: can we develop a genre-specific mimetic analysis (of film), and are we able to develop anything approaching a "Girardian aesthetic"? Each of the contributors addresses these questions through the analysis of a film.

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Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9781501367663
eBook ISBN
9781501334849
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Film History & Criticism

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Contents
  6. Notes on Editors and Contributors
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 Buñuel’s Apocalypse Now Andrew McKenna
  9. 2 On Fiction and Truth: Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing Paul Dumouchel
  10. 3 Passing “The Imitation Game”: Ex Machina, the Ethical, and Mimetic Theory Sandor Goodhart
  11. 4 Femina ex machina Jean-Pierre Dupuy
  12. 5 Looking for a Scapegoat and Finding Oneself: Kieƛlowski’s Decalogue and Mimetic Theory Jeremiah Alberg
  13. 6 Violence and Politics in Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood Richard van Oort
  14. 7 The Screenic Age Eric Gans
  15. 8 A Sacrificial Crisis Not Far Away: Star Wars as a Genuinely Modern Mythology Paolo Diego Bubbio
  16. 9 Mimetic Magic and Anti-Sacrificial Slayage: A Girardian Reading of Buffy the Vampire Slayer George A. Dunn and Brian McDonald
  17. 10 It’s Not the End of the World: Postapocalyptic Flourishing in Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time Emma A. Jane
  18. Index
  19. Copyright