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Title Buddhism and American cinema / edited by John Whalen-Bridge and Gary Storhoff ; foreword by Danny Rubin.

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series SUNY series in Buddhism and American culture
SUNY series in Buddhism and American culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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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Subject Buddhism in motion pictures.
Buddhism in motion pictures.
Motion pictures -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.
Motion pictures -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.
Motion pictures -- United States -- History.
Motion pictures.
United States.
History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Whalen-Bridge, John, 1961- editor.
Storhoff, Gary, 1947- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Buddhism and American cinema 9781438453491 (DLC) 2013047789
ISBN 1438453515 (electronic book)
9781438453514 (electronic book)