Blindness, Blinking and Boredom: Seeing and Being in Buddhism and Film
This essay takes up a paradoxical problem articulated by Buddhist philosopher, Nishitani Keiji: the eye does not see the eye itself. It argues that film has a therapeutic function by virtue of its ability to draw our attention to this precise aspect of our existential situation; namely, that we alte...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI
[2018]
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Religions
Year: 2018, Volume: 9, Issue: 8, Pages: 1-21 |
Further subjects: | B
the uncanny valley
B Buddhism B high frame rate cinema B Film B Emergence B Aesthetics B Embodiment B film editing B cinematic realism |
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