Mimetic theory and film
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Editors and Contributors -- Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Buñuel's Apocalypse Now -- Notes -- Chapter 2: On Fiction and Truth: Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing -- But that is the Truth! -- Mimesis as reenactment and...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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New York London
Bloomsbury Academic
2019
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| In: | Year: 2019 |
| Series/Journal: | Violence, desire, and the sacred
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Girard, René 1923-2015
/ Mimesis
/ Film
B Mimesis |
| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
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Volltext (Aggregator) |
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| Summary: | Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Editors and Contributors -- Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Buñuel's Apocalypse Now -- Notes -- Chapter 2: On Fiction and Truth: Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing -- But that is the Truth! -- Mimesis as reenactment and the voice of the victims -- Blindness and truth -- Silence -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Passing "The Imitation Game": Ex Machina, the Ethical, and Mimetic Theory -- Passing the Turing test -- The Imitation Game and Ex Machina -- The mimetic and the ethical -- Part four: The ethical, the mimetic, and Ex Machina -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Femina ex machina -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Looking for a Scapegoat and Finding Oneself: Kieślowski's Decalogue and Mimetic Theory -- Decalogue One -- Decalogue Ten -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Violence and Politics in Shakespeare's Macbeth and Kurosawa's Throne of Blood -- Notes -- Chapter 7: The Screenic Age -- Scene and screen -- Gilles Deleuze's two eras -- Notes -- Chapter 8: A Sacrificial Crisis Not Far Away: Star Wars as a Genuinely Modern Mythology -- "There is no escape"!: The original trilogy beyond the monomyth -- "The Sith and the Jedi are similar in almost every way": The prequels and the history of mythology -- "I have a bad feeling about this": The Sacrificial Crisis in the New Episodes -- Notes -- Chapter 9: Mimetic Magic and Anti-Sacrificial Slayage: A Girardian Reading of Buffy the Vampire Slayer -- The spell of desire -- Welcoming Dawn -- The dream reveals the reality -- Notes -- Chapter 10: It's Not the End of the World: Postapocalyptic Flourishing in Cartoon Network's Adventure Time -- The Utopian Dystopic Land of Ooo -- "Alright, I'll try to turn into a cheetah farting. I can't do the spots": Adventure Time on Mimesis, Desire, and Balbaflonic Lasers Nietzsche's Übermensch vs Mandroid: Who would win? Violence in Adventure Time -- Sweet weirdos and moral rehab -- Adventure Time's earnestly "Ironic" virtue -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (x, 214 Seiten) |
| ISBN: | 978-1-5013-3485-6 |
