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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784754303321

Titolo

Imag(in)ing otherness [[electronic resource] ] : filmic visions of living together / / edited by S. Brent Plate, David Jasper

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Atlanta, Ga., : Scholars Press, c1999

ISBN

1-280-84517-1

0-19-534547-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Collana

American Academy of Religion cultural criticism series ; ; no. 7

Altri autori (Persone)

JasperDavid

PlateS. Brent <1966->

Disciplina

791.43/655

Soggetti

Exoticism in motion pictures

Minorities in motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-228) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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