Cinema illuminating reality : media philosophy through Buddhism

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    • Fan, Victor

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Cinema illuminating reality : media philosophy through Buddhism

Victor Fan

University of Minnesota Press, c2022

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Note

Notes: p. 277-318

Filmography: p. 319-320

Includes index

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Description

A new critical approach to cinema and media based on Buddhism as a philosophical discourse How can a philosophical discourse generated in Asia help us reframe and renew cinema and media theory? Cinema Illuminating Reality provides a possible way to do this by using Buddhist ideas to examine the intricate relationship between technicity and consciousness in the cinema. The resulting dialogue between Buddhism and Euro-American philosophy is the first of its kind in film and media studies. Victor Fan examines cinema's ontology and ontogenetic formation and how such a formational process produces knowledge, political agency, and in-aesthetics. Buddhism allows Fan to deconstruct binary thinking and reimagine media as an ecology, rethinking cinema in relational terms between the human and the machine. Along the way, Fan considers a wide variety of case studies from around the globe, while paying special attention to how contemporary Tibeto-Sinophone filmmakers have adopted relational thinking to detail ways of rebuilding a world that appears to be beyond repair. From Chinese queer cinema to a reexamination of Japanese master Ozu's work and its historical reception to Christian Petzold's 2018 existential thriller Transit, CinemaIlluminating Reality forges a remarkable path between Buddhist studies and cinema studies, casting vital new light on both of these important subjects.

Table of Contents

Dependent Originations Note on Languages Introduction: Cinema: A Technicity-Consciousness 1. Meontology 2. The Karma-Image 3. The Insight-Image 4. Cinema Ecology 5. In-Aesthetics Conclusion: Cinema and Nonviolence Multilingual Glossary of Buddhist Terms, Names, and Titles Notes Filmography Index

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