Buddhism and American cinema /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Whalen-Bridge, John, 1961- (Editor), Storhoff, Gary, 1947- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Albany : State University of New York Press, [2014]
Series:	SUNY series in Buddhism and American culture.
Subjects:	Buddhism in motion pictures. Motion pictures > Religious aspects > Buddhism. Motion pictures > United States > History and criticism.

Table of 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.