TY  - BOOK
AU  - Whalen-Bridge,John
AU  - Storhoff,Gary
TI  - Buddhism and American cinema
T2  - SUNY series in Buddhism and American culture
SN  - 1438453515 (electronic bk.)
AV  - PN1995.9.B795 B79 2014
U1  - 791.43/682943 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Albany
PB  - State University of New York Press
KW  - Buddhism in motion pictures
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Buddhism
KW  - United States
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS / Reference
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; John Whalen-Bridge: Some (Hollywood) versions of enlightenment -- Representation and intention. Hanh Ngoc Nguyen and R.C. Lutz: Buddhism and authenticity in Oliver Stone's Heaven and earth -- Eve mullen: Buddhism, children, and the childlike in American Buddhist films -- Jiayan Mi and Jason C. Toncic: Consuming Tibet: Imperial romance and the wretched of holy plateau -- Felicia Chan: Politics into aesthetics: cultural translation in Kundun, Seven years in Tibet and The cup -- Allegories of shadow and light. Jennifer l. McMahon and B. Steve Csaki: Momentarily lost: finding the moment in Lost in translation -- Richard C. Anderson and David A. Harper: Dying to be free: the emergence of "American militant Buddhism" in popular culture -- Karsten J. Struhl: Buddhism, our desperation, and American cinema -- Devin Harner: Christian allegory, Buddhism and Bardo in Richard Kelly's Donnie Darko -- David l. Smith: "Beautiful necessities": American beauty and the idea of freedom -- Postscript -- Gary Gach: Afterword: on being luminous
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