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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Published in:Violence, desire, and the sacred
Contributors: Cowdell, Scott 1960- (Editor) ; Fleming, Chris 1970- (Editor) ; Hodge, Joel (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: New York London Oxford New Delhi Sydney Bloomsbury Academic 2016
In: Violence, desire, and the sacred (volume 3)
Year: 2016
Reviews:Mimesis, Movies, and Media: Violence, Desire, and the Sacred, Scott Cowdell, Chris Fleming, and Joel Hodge (eds), Bloomsbury, 2015 (ISBN 978-1-62892-464-0), xii + 241 pp., hb £70 (2018) (Tripp, Jeffrey M., 1978 -)
Edition:Paperback edition
Series/Journal:Violence, desire, and the sacred volume 3
Further subjects:B Mimesis in motion pictures
B Motion Pictures Philosophy
B Girard, René (1923-2015) Influence
Online Access: Inhaltsverzeichnis (Verlag)
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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:1501324373