{"product_id":"9781517909925","title":"Cinema Illuminating Reality","description":"Author: Victor Fan\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781517909925\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 05 Jul 2022\u003cbr\u003ePages: 328\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new critical approach to cinema and media based on Buddhism as a philosophical discourse\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow can a philosophical discourse generated in Asia help us reframe and renew cinema and media theory? \u003ci\u003eCinema Illuminating Reality\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVictor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Chinese queer cinema to a reexamination of Japanese master Ozu's work and its historical reception to Christian Petzold's 2018 existential thriller \u003ci\u003eTransit\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCinema\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eIlluminating Reality\u003c\/i\u003e forges a remarkable path between Buddhist studies and cinema studies, casting vital new light on both of these important subjects.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46830019051678,"sku":"ADS-9781517909925","price":54.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781517909925.jpg?v=1778558122","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781517909925","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}