TY - BOOK AU - Bubbio, Paolo Diego and Fleming, Chris TI - Mimetic Theory and Film U1 - N40.61 23 PY - 2020/// CY - New York PB - Bloomsbury Academic KW - Girard, René, KW - Mimesis in motion pictures KW - Motion pictures KW - Philosophy N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 ER -