Mimetic set and match: Around Shaffer’s "Sleuth"
Anthony Shaffer’s mystery thriller, Sleuth, and subsequent film version, provide a blueprint for the crushing influence of imitation and monstrous doubling as outlined by French-American anthropologist, René Girard. The relationship between crime writer Andrew Wyke and his wife’s lover reveals itsel...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2024
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| In: |
Studia filmoznawcze
Year: 2024, Volume: 47, Pages: 11-24 |
| Further subjects: | B
doubles
B Słowa kluczowe B Mimetic Theory B Sleuth |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | Anthony Shaffer’s mystery thriller, Sleuth, and subsequent film version, provide a blueprint for the crushing influence of imitation and monstrous doubling as outlined by French-American anthropologist, René Girard. The relationship between crime writer Andrew Wyke and his wife’s lover reveals itself to be one of negative reciprocity built upon envy, leading to a lethal dénouement. Yet Milo’s final renunciation of mediated desire and further games-playing breaks the cycle of symmetry. Throughout both the script and screenplay, Shaffer offers an acute social commentary on the concepts of difference and non-belonging, while also addressing the drive towards assimilation which risks fomenting resentment among in-groups and out-groups. |
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| ISSN: | 2957-2398 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studia filmoznawcze
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.19195/0860-116X.47.1 |
