Imag(in)ing otherness: filmic visions of living together
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Atlanta, Ga. Scholars Press ©1999
Series:American Academy of Religion cultural criticism series no. 7
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-228) and index
Introduction : images and imaginings / S. Brent Plate -- pt. 1: Surviving community. Poetry written with blood : creating death in Dead man / Gregory Salyer -- Joseph and his brothers : quarreling after the Holocaust / Jennifer L. Koosed -- pt. 2: Desiring community. The end fo desire : theologies of Eros in the Song of songs and Breaking the waves / Kyle Keefer and Tod Linafelt -- Transgressing goodness in Breaking the waves / Irena S.M. Makarushka -- pt. 3: Eating community. Cinematic communion? : Babette's feast, transcendental style, and interdisciplinarity / Maria Consuelo Maisto -- When your family is other and the other your family : freedom and obligation in Frank Capra's You can't take it with you / Patrick Caruso and S. Brent Plate
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, reli
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (vii, 230 pages)
ISBN:0195345479
0788505939
9780195345476
9780788505935

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