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Half Title
Title Page
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Contributors
Introduction
Part 1: Media and Representation
1. On the One Medium Eric Gans
2. The Scapegoat Mechanism and the Media: Beyond the Folk Devil Paradigm John O’Carroll
3. The Apocalypse Will Not Be Televised Chris Fleming.
Part 2: Film
4. Mirrors of Nature: Artificial Agents in Real Life and Virtual Worlds Paul Dumouchel
5. Superheroes, Scapegoats, and Saviors: The Problem of Evil and the Need for Redemption Joel Hodge
6. Sanctified Victimage on Page and Screen: The Hunger Games as Prophetic Media Debra E. MacDonald
7. The Matrix E-Motion: Simulation, Mimesis, Hypermimesis Nidesh Lawtoo
8. Apocalypse of the Therapeutic: The Cabin in the Woods and the Death of Mimetic Desire Peter Y. Paik
9. Eyes Wide Shut: Mimesis and Historical Memory in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining David Humbert
10. Against Romantic Love: Mimeticism and Satire in Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, and To Rome with Love Scott Cowdell
11. A Beautiful Crisis? Ang Lee’s Film Adaptation of The Ice Storm Carly Osborn
12. Cowboy Metaphysics, the Virtuous-Enough Cowboy, and Mimetic Desire in Stephen Frears’s The Hi-Lo Country Thomas Ryba
Part 3: Television
13. The Self in Crisis: Watching Mad Men and Homeland with Girard and Hegel Paolo Diego Bubbio
14. Media, Murder, and Memoir: Girardian Baroque in Robert Drewe’s The Shark Net Rosamund Dalziell
15. Conversion in Dexter Matthew John Paul Tan and Joel Hodge
Appendix: René Girard at a Glance Scott Cowdell, Chris Fleming, and Joel Hodge
Glossary of Key Girardian Terms Scott Cowdell, Chris Fleming, and Joel Hodge
Further Reading
Index
Copyright Page
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