Imag(in)Ing Otherness

by David Jasper and S. Brent Plate

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0788505939
• ISBN13: 9780788505935
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"