Contributors

Introduction

Part 1: Media and Representation

1. On the One Medium
Eric Gans (University of California, Los Angeles)
2. The Scapegoat Mechanism and the Media: Beyond the Folk Devil Paradigm
John O'Carroll (Charles Sturt University)
3. The Apocalypse Will Not Be Televised
Chris Fleming (University of Western Sydney)

Part 2: Film

4. Mirrors of Nature: Artificial Agents in real life and virtual worlds
Paul Dumouchel (Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, Japan)
5. Superheroes, Scapegoats and Saviours: Mimesis, Sacred Violence, and the Redemptive Vision of The Dark Knight
Joel Hodge (Australian Catholic University)
6. Sanctified Victimage on Page and Screen: The Hunger Games as Prophetic Media
Debra E. MacDonald (University of Auckland)
7. The Mimetic E-Motion: From The Matrix to Avatar
Nidesh Lawtoo (John Hopkins University)
8. Apocalypse of the Therapeutic: The Cabin in the Woods and the Death of Mimetic Desire
Peter Paik (University of Milwaukee)
9. Eyes Wide Shut: Mimesis and Historical Memory in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining
David Humbert (Thorneloe College, Laurentian University)
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 (Charles Sturt University)
11. A Beautiful Crisis? Ang Lee's Film Adaptation of The Ice Storm
Carly Osborn (University of Adelaide)
12. Cowboy Metaphysics, the Virtuous-Enough Cowboy, and Mimetic Desire in Stephen Fears' The Hi-Lo Country
Thomas Ryba (Purdue University/University of Notre Dame)

Section 3: Television

13. The Self in Crisis: Watching Mad Men and Homeland with Girard and Hegel
Paolo Diego Bubbio (University of Western Sydney)
14. Media, Murder and Memoir: Girardian Baroque in Robert Drewe's The Shark Net
Rosamund Dalziell (Charles Sturt University)
15. Conversion in Dexter
Matthew John Paul Tan (De Paul University) and Joel Hodge (Australian Catholic University)

Appendix: René Girard at a Glance
Glossary of Key Girardian Terms
Further Reading
Index