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Mimetic Theory and Film (Violence, Desire, and the Sacred)

Mimetic Theory and Film (Violence, Desire, and the Sacred)

by Chris Fleming (Author), Chris Fleming (Editor), PaoloDiegoBubbio (Editor), PaoloDiegoBubbio (Author), Chris Fleming (Editor), Paolo Diego Bubbio (Editor), Paolo Diego Bubbio (Author)

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Synopsis

The interdisciplinary French-American thinker Rene Girard (1923-2015) has been one of the towering figures of the humanities in the last half-century. The title of Rene Girard's first book offered his own thesis in summary form: romantic lie and novelistic truth [mensonge romantique et verite 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 verite 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.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 192
 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 21 Feb 2019
ISBN 10: 1501334832
ISBN 13: 9781501334832
Book Overview: A multi-faceted investigation that tests Rene Girard's mimetic theory in the area of film studies.

Media Reviews
Recognizing a growing interest at the international level, this volume is a timely publication in studies of film, philosophy, and the work of Rene Girard, exploring with insight and acuity the intersections of mimetic dynamics, sacrifice, and the moving image. Assembling authoritative critical voices on mimetic theory and analysing both classic and recent films, this book shows the hermeneutical and critical productivity of Girard's theoretical insights for film studies. A must-read for anyone in the field. * Pierpaolo Antonello, Reader in Modern Italian Literature and Culture, University of Cambridge, UK, and co-editor of Mimesis, Desire, and the Novel: Rene Girard and Literary Criticism (2015) *
Author Bio
Paolo Diego Bubbio is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Western Sydney University, Australia. He is the author of Sacrifice in the Post-Kantian Tradition: Perspectivism, Intersubjectivity, and Recognition (2014) and God and the Self in Hegel: Beyond Subjectivism (2017). His most recent book, entirely devoted to mimetic theory, is entitled Intellectual Sacrifice and Other Mimetic Paradoxes (2018). Chris Fleming is Associate Professor in Philosophy and Social and Cultural Analysis at Western Sydney University, Australia. He is an editor of the Bloomsbury series on mimetic theory, Violence, Desire, and the Sacred, and the author of Rene Girard: Violence and Mimesis (2004) and Modern Conspiracy: The Importance of Being Paranoid (with Emma A. Jane) (Bloomsbury, 2014). He is also co-translator of Rene Girard and Raymund Schwager: Correspondence 1974-1991 (2016).