Buddhism and American cinema

by Storhoff, Gary Whalen-Bridge, John

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Full title :Buddhism and American cinema / edited by John Whalen-Bridge and Gary Storhoff ; foreword by Danny Rubin

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Publication Date:2014

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Publisher(s):State University of New York Press
Place of Publication:Albany
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014

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Description:xv, 257 pages ; : 24 cm

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ISBN:9781438453491, 1438453493
oclc:ocn900758994
LC Classification:PN1995.9.B795
Dewey Decimal:791.43682943

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

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