Albany : State University of New York Press, [2014]
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Part of the series SUNY series in Buddhism and American culture;SUNY series in Buddhism and American culture.
Notes:

• 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.

Subjects:

• Buddhism in motion pictures.
• Motion pictures — Religious aspects — Buddhism.
• Motion pictures — United States — History and criticism.

Requested by Wiersma, H.