By Jasper David Plate S Brent
Imag(in)ing Otherness explores relationships among movie and faith, aesthetics and ethics. the quantity examines those relationships by way of viewing how otherness is imaged in movie and the way otherness alternately could be imagined. Drawing from a number of motion pictures from differing spiritual perspectives--including Chan Buddhism, Hinduism, local American religions, Christianity, and Judaism--the essays accrued during this quantity research the actual difficulties of "living jointly" while confronted with the tensions introduced out in the course of the otherness of differing sexualities, ethnicities, genders, religions, cultures, and households.
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