Mimetic Theory and Film

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 René 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 René Girard and Raymund Schwager: Correspondence 1974-1991 (2016).

Notes on Editors and Contributors

Introduction
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

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