Imag(in)ing Otherness - Filmic Visions of Living Together

Zusatztext These essays on a variety of independent films, as well as international films and some Hollywood films, critically examine depictions of race, gender, class, and sexuality. This book has both theoretical and practical importance, for "what we learn how to see" intimately affects how we live as others with others. Informationen zum Autor S. Brent Plate teaches Religion at the University of Vermont. David Jasper is Dean of the Divinity Faculty at the University of Glasgow. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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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• Authors: S. Brent (Department of Religion Plate, S. Brent Jasper Plate
• Assisted by: David Jasper (Editor), Jasper David (Editor), S. Brent Plate (Editor), Plate S. Brent (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.01.1999
• EAN: 9780788505935
• ISBN: 978-0-7885-0593-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: AAR Cultural Criticism Series; American Academy of Religion C; AAR Cultural Criticism Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, comparative religion, RELIGION / Comparative Religion, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, Ethics & moral philosophy, Philosophy: aesthetics, Ethics and moral philosophy, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism