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1 online resource (vii, 230 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
American Academy of Religion cultural criticism series ; no. 7 |
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American Academy of Religion cultural criticism series ; no. 7.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-228) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Exoticism in motion pictures.
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Minorities in motion pictures.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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Exoticism in motion pictures
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Minorities in motion pictures
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Films.
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Gemeenschap (sociologie)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Plate, S. Brent, 1966-
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Jasper, David
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| LC no. |
99045495 |
| ISBN |
9780195345476 |
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0195345479 |
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1280845171 |
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9781280845178 |
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