The interdisciplinary French-American thinker Ren Girard (1923-2015) has been one of the towering figures of the humanities in the last half-century. The title of Ren Girards first book offered his own thesis in summary form: romantic lie and novelistic truth mensonge romantique et v rit 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 lart, 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 v rit filmique?
