Imag(in)ing Otherness
Filmic Visions of Living Together
1st Edition
Published on 2. January 1999
239 pages
978-0-19-534547-6 (ISBN)
Description
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, cultures, and families.
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S. Brent Plate teaches Religion at the University of Vermont. David Jasper is Dean of the Divinity Faculty at the University of Glasgow.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Images and Imaginings
- Part 1 Surviving Community
- 1. Poetry Written with Blood: Creating Death in Dead Man
- 2. Joseph and His Brothers: Quarreling After the Holocaust
- Part 2 Desiring Community
- 3. The End of Desire: Theologies of Eros in the Song of Songs and Breaking the Waves
- 4. Transgressing Goodness in Breaking the Waves
- Part 3 Eating Community
- 5. Cinematic Communion?: Babette's Feast, Transcendental Style, and Interdisciplinarity
- 6. When Your Family is Other, and the Other Your Family: Freedom and Obligation in Frank Capra's You Can't Take it With You
- Part 4 Colonizing Community
- 7. "What Happened in the Cave?" Communities and Outsiders in Films of India
- 8. Postmodernism and Neo-Orientalism: Peter Brook's Mahabharata- Producing India Through a Body of Multicultural Images
- Part 5 Ending Community
- 9. Imagining Nothing and Imaging Otherness in Buddhist Film
- 10. Behold Thou the Behemoth: Imaging the Unimaginable in Monster Movies
- Afterword: Otherness ad infinitum
- Contributors
- Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
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