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Buddhism and American cinema /
In 1989, the same year the Dalai Lama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, a decade-long boom of films dedicated to Buddhist people, history, and culture began. Offering the first scholarly treatment of Buddhism and cinema, the editors advise that there are two kinds of Buddhist film: those that are a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | SUNY series in Buddhism and American culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- John Whalen-Bridge: Some (Hollywood) versions of enlightenment
- Representation and intention. Hanh Ngoc Nguyen and R.C. Lutz: Buddhism and authenticity in Oliver Stone's Heaven and earth
- Eve mullen: Buddhism, children, and the childlike in American Buddhist films
- Jiayan Mi and Jason C. Toncic: Consuming Tibet: Imperial romance and the wretched of holy plateau
- Felicia Chan: Politics into aesthetics: cultural translation in Kundun, Seven years in Tibet and The cup
- Allegories of shadow and light. Jennifer l. McMahon and B. Steve Csaki: Momentarily lost: finding the moment in Lost in translation
- Richard C. Anderson and David A. Harper: Dying to be free: the emergence of "American militant Buddhism" in popular culture
- Karsten J. Struhl: Buddhism, our desperation, and American cinema
- Devin Harner: Christian allegory, Buddhism and Bardo in Richard Kelly's Donnie Darko
- David l. Smith: "Beautiful necessities": American beauty and the idea of freedom
- Postscript
- Gary Gach: Afterword: on being luminous.