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Imag(in)ing otherness : filmic visions of living together / edited by S. Brent Plate, David Jasper.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- American Academy of Religion cultural criticism series ; no. 7.
- American Academy of Religion cultural criticism series ; no. 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Exoticism in motion pictures.
- Minorities in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (239 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Scholars Press, c1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Imag(in)ing Otherness explores relationships between film and religion, aesthetics and ethics. The volume examines these relationships by viewing how otherness is imaged in film and how otherness alternately might be imagined. Drawing from a variety of films from differing religious perspectives--including Chan Buddhism, Hinduism, Native American religions, Christianity, and Judaism--the essays gathered in this volume examine the particular problems of ""living together"" when faced with the tensions brought out through the otherness of differing sexualities, ethnicities, genders, religions, c
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Images and Imaginings; Part 1 Surviving Community; Part 2 Desiring Community; Part 3 Eating Community; Part 4 Colonizing Community; Part 5 Ending Community; Afterword: Otherness ad infinitum; Contributors; Filmography; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-228) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-84517-1
- 0-19-534547-9
- OCLC:
- 252671898
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