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Zusatztext For over fifty years! Rene´ Girard's mimetic theory has given us a startling way of reading texts! especially novels and other classic literature. His approach identifies a strong complicity between 'the sacred' and the violence which is at the root of social and cultural formation. The present volume offers an overdue extension of this hermeneutic! by exploring the mimetic dimension of cinema. However! the essays are far from being a simple mechanical application of Girard's theory. Once again! the remarkable energy and creativity of the Australian circle of Girardian scholars have yielded fresh questions! but also a new fertility! with regard to Girardian theory. Informationen zum Autor Paolo Diego Bubbio is Associate Professor in Philosophy at Western Sydney University, Australia. Chris Fleming is Associate Professor in Philosophy and Anthropology at Western Sydney University, Australia. He is the author of René Girard: Violence and Mimesis (2004) and Vice-President of the Australian Girard Seminar. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Editors and ContributorsIntroduction Diego Bubbio and Chris Fleming, Western Sydney University, Australia 1. Buñuel’s Apocalypse Now Andrew McKenna, Loyola University Chicago, USA 2. On Fiction and Truth: Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing Paul Dumouchel, Ritsumeikan Uiversity, Japan 3. Passing "The Imitation Game": Ex Machina , the Ethical, and Mimetic Theory Sandor Goodhart, Purdue University, USA 4. Femina ex-machina Jean-Pierre Dupuy, École Polytechnique, Paris, France 5. Looking for a Scapegoat and Finding Oneself: Kieslowski’s Decalogue and Mimetic Theory Jeremiah Alberg, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan 6. Violence and Politics in Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood Richard van Oort, University of Victoria, Canada 7. The Screenic Age Eric Gans, UCLA, USA 8. A Sacrificial Crisis Not Far Away: Star Wars as a Genuinely Modern Mythology Paolo Diego Bubbio, Western Sydney University, Australia 9. Mimetic Magic and Anti-Sacrificial Slayage: A Girardian Reading of Buffy the Vampire Slayer George A. Dunn, University of Indianapolis, USA, and Brian McDonald, Indiana University, USA 10. It’s Not the End of the World: Post-Apocalyptic Flourishing in Cartoon Network's Adventure Time Emma A. Jane, University of New South Wales, Australia Index...
