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UNINA9910458598503321 |
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Titolo |
Imag(in)ing otherness [[electronic resource] ] : filmic visions of living together / / edited by S. Brent Plate, David Jasper |
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Atlanta, Ga., : Scholars Press, c1999 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-84517-1 |
0-19-534547-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (239 p.) |
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Collana |
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American Academy of Religion cultural criticism series ; ; no. 7 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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JasperDavid |
PlateS. Brent <1966-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Exoticism in motion pictures |
Minorities in motion pictures |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-228) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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