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



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Titolo: Imag(in)ing otherness [[electronic resource] ] : filmic visions of living together / / edited by S. Brent Plate, David Jasper Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Atlanta, Ga., : Scholars Press, c1999
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-84517-1
0-19-534547-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910784754303321
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Serie: American Academy of Religion cultural criticism series ; ; no. 7.