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Staging Zen Buddhism: Image Creation in Contemporary Films |
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Porcu, Elisabetta
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| Source |
Contemporary Buddhism: An Interdisciplinary Journal
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| Volume | v.15 n.1 |
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| Date | 2014.05 |
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| Pages | 81 - 96 |
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| Publisher | Routledge |
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https://www.routledge.com/
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| Location | Abingdon, UK [阿賓登, 英國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Special Issue: Buddhism and Film
Elisabetta Porcu, PhD in Religious Studies (2006), is currently a Visiting Research Scholar at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto. In Germany, she is affiliated with the University of Leipzig, Centre for Area Studies.
Address: University of Leipzig, Centre for Area Studies, Thomaskirchhof 20, 04109 Leipzig, Germany Tel: +49 341 9737889. E-mail: |
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| Keyword | Zen Buddhism; Buddhism in Motion Pictures; Motion Pictures -- Production & Direction; Influences on Motion Pictures; Motion Picture Industry |
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| Abstract | In this paper, I analyse the image creation of Zen Buddhism as emerges from films produced in Europe and North America. In particular, I explore Marc Rosenbush's Zen Noir (2004), Zen & Zero by Michael Ginthör (2006), and Erleuchtung Garantiert (1999) by Doris Dörrie. Comparatively, I examine a recent Japanese production on the life and teachings of the Sōtō Zen master Dōgen titled Zen and directed by Takahashi Banmei (2009). The aim of this analysis is to explore if and how depictions of Zen in western movies mirror representations of this religious tradition made ad hoc for the ‘West’ and, conversely, what is the image of Zen Buddhism as appears in Japanese productions. This will be considered in a comparative perspective in order to identify differences, possible common patterns and mutual influences which may have shaped the cinematic perception of this form of Japanese Buddhism in Europe and North America.
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| Table of contents | Introduction 81
Cinematic visions of Zen and ... 82
Zen Noir 82
Zen & Zero: An Austrian surfextravaganza 85
Enlightening Zen and meditation in Dorries Dorrie’s film Erleuchtung garantiert 86
Staging Dogen’s life and teaching in the Japanese movie Zen 89
Conclusion 91
Acknowledgements 92
Notes 92
References 95
Films (DVD) 96 |
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| ISSN | 14639947 (P); 14767953 (E) |
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| DOI | 10.1080/14639947.2014.890354 |
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| Created date | 2015.11.11 |
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| Modified date | 2017.07.14 |
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