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Avatar and Nature Spirituality /
"Avatar and Nature Spirituality explores the cultural and religious significance of James Cameron's film Avatar (2010), one of the most commercially successful motion pictures of all time. Its success was due in no small measure to the beauty of the Pandoran landscape and the dramatic, hea...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Waterloo, Ontario, Canada :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue: Avatar as Rorschach / Bron Taylor
- Introduction: The religion and politics of Avatar / Bron Taylor
- Avatar: ecorealism and the blockbuster melodrama / Stephen Rust
- Outer space religion and the ambiguous nature of Avatar's Pandora / Thore Bjornvig
- Avatar fandom, environmentalism, and nature religion / Britt Istoft
- Post-Pandoran depression or Na'vi sympathy: Avatar, affect, and audience reception / Matthew Holtmeier
- Transposing the conversation into popular idiom: the reaction to Avatar in Hawai'i / Rachelle K. Gould, Nicole M. Ardoin, Jennifer Kamakanipakolonaheʻokekai Hashimoto
- Watching Avatar from "AvaTar Sands" land / Randolph Haluza-DeLay, Michael P. Ferber, Tim Wiebe-Neufeld
- Becoming the "noble savage": nature religion and the "other" in Avatar / Chris Klassen
- The Na'vi as spiritual hunters: a semiotic exploration / Pat Munday
- Calling the Na'vi: evolutionary Jungian psychology and nature spirits / Bruce MacLennan
- Avatar and Artemis: indigenous narratives as neo-romantic environmental ethics / Joy H. Greenberg
- Spirituality and resistance: Avatar and Ursula Le Guin's The word for world is forest / David Landis Barnhill
- I see you: interspecies empathy and Avatar / Lisa H. Sideris
- Knowing Pandora in sound: acoustemology and ecomusicological imagination in Cameron's Avatar / Michael B. MacDonald
- Works of doubt and leaps of faith: an Augustinian challenge to planetary resilience / Jacob von Heland, Sverker Sörlin
- Epilogue: Truth and fiction in Avatar's cosmogony and nature religion / Bron Taylor
- Afterword: Considering the legacies of Avatar / Daniel Heath Justice.