Bubbio, Paolo Diego and Fleming, Chris <br/><br/>
Mimetic Theory and Film  

 - New York  Bloomsbury Academic  2020 
 - 211p  24 cm. 
 - Violence, Desire, and the Sacred - 8 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Buñuel's apocalypse now / Andrew McKenna -- On fiction and truth: Joshua Oppenheimer's The act of killing / Paul Dumouchel -- Passing "The imitation game": ex machina, the ethical, and mimetic theory / Sandor Goodhart -- Femina ex machina / Jean-Pierre Dupuy -- Looking for a scapegoat and finding oneself: Kieslowski's Decalogue and mimetic theory / Jeremiah Alberg -- Violence and politics in Shakespeare's Macbeth and Kurosawa's Throne of blood / Richard van Oort -- The screenic age / Eric Gans -- A sacrificial crisis not far away: Star wars as a genuinely modern mythology / Paolo Diego Bubbio -- Mimetic magic and anti-sacrificial slayage: a Girardian reading of Buffy the vampire slayer / George A. Dunn and Brian McDonald -- It's not the end of the world: postapocalyptic flourishing in Cartoon Network's Adventure time / Emma A. Jane. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2018059459 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Girard, René, 1923-2015 --Influence.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mimesis in motion pictures.<br/>Motion pictures--Philosophy.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>N40.61  / B850