CONTAGION:
JOURNAL OF VIOLENCE, MIMESIS, AND CULTURE

VOLUME 5 (SPRING 1998)

Main topic:
Papers of the COV&R Conference 1997
in Graz/Austria:

"Film and Modernity: Violence, Sacrifice and Religion"

Complete Volume as PDF-document
(Free download, 4,76 MB)

CONTENTS:

Bartlett, Tony: The Party's Over (Almost): Terminal Celebration in Contemporary Film 1

Arens, Edmund: »Dead Man Walking«: On the Cinematic Treatment of Licensed Public Killing 14

Kratter, Matthew: Twilight of the Vampires: History and Myth of the Undead 30

Culbertson, Diana: The Body and the Blood: Sacrificial Expulsion in »Au Revoir Les Enfants«46

Jager, Colin: Sacrifice and the Public Sphere 57

Reineke, Martha: Mimetic Violence and Nella Larsen's »Passing«: Toward a Critical Consciousness of Racism 74

Cornell, John F: A Parable of Scandal: Speculations about the Wheat and the Tares 98

Grote, Jim: The Founding Murder in Macchiavelli's »The Prince« 118

Graham, Tyler: St. Augustine's Novelistic Conversion 135

Moore, Sebastian: Crucifixion: Accident or Design? 156

Notes on Contributors 164