{"product_id":"cinema-illuminating-reality-victor-fan-9781517909925","title":"Cinema Illuminating Reality: Media Philosophy Through Buddhism","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Victor Fan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1517909929\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517909925\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/29\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.43w x 1.02d","brand":"Victor Fan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43981876527359,"sku":"9781517909925","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ffda4924-d654-45ce-bfad-e0cf56e2dc89.jpg?v=1683258025","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cinema-illuminating-reality-victor-fan-9781517909925","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}