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

• Pubblicazione: Atlanta, Ga., : Scholars Press, c1999
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (239 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.43/655
• Soggetto topico: Exoticism in motion pictures; Minorities in motion pictures
• Altri autori: JasperDavid PlateS. Brent <1966->
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Imag(in)ing otherness
• ISBN: 1-280-84517-1; 0-19-534547-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910809711903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: American Academy of Religion cultural criticism series ; ; no. 7.