Mimesis, Movies, and Media
Material type: TextSeries: Violence, Desire, and the Sacred Series ; 201600ENGGPS3Publication details: New York Bloomsbury 2016Description: 241pISBN:- 9781501324376
- N40.61 C838
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includes index and biblioraphy
Part 1 Media and representation 1 On the one medium ...7 2 The scapegoat mechanism and the media: Beyond the folk devil ...17 3 The apocalypse will not be televised ...33 Part 2 Film 4 Mirrors of nature : Artificial agents in real and virtual worlds ...51 5 Superheroes, scapegoats and saviors: The problem of evil and the need for redemption ...61 6 Sanctified victimage on page and screen: The hunger games as prophetic media ...77 7 The matrix E- Motion: Simulation,Mimesis, Hypermimesis ...89 8 Apocalypse of the therapeutic: The Cabin in the woods and the death of mimetic desire ...105 9 Eyes wide shut: Mimesis and historical memory in stanley kubrick`s the shining ...117 10 Against romanic love: Mimeticism and satire in woody allen`s vicky cristina barcelona, you will meet a tall dark stranger, and to Rome with love ...129 11 A beautiful crisis? Ang Lee`s film adapta tion of the ice storm ...137 12 Cowboy metaphysics the virtuous-Enough cowboy, and mimetic desire in Stephen frear`s the hi -lo country ...149 Part 3 Television 13 The self in crisis: watching mad men and homeland with girard and hegel ...171 14 Media, Murder, and memoir: Girardian baroque in Robert Drewe`s The shark net ...189 15 Conversion in dexter ...201
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