Buddhism and Film (Special Issue of Contemporary Buddhism)
The latest issue of Contemporary Buddhism: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Volume 15, Issue 1, 2014) was a Special Issue focusing on Buddhism and Film. I just added its articles to this site
- Pema Tseden’s Transnational Cinema: Screening a Buddhist Landscape of Tibet by Dan Smyer Yu
- Space Buddhism: The Adoption of Buddhist Motifs in Star Wars by Christian Feichtinger
- Staging Zen Buddhism: Image Creation in Contemporary Films by Elisabetta Porcu
- Buddhism and Film—Inter-Relation and Interpenetration: Reflections on an Emerging Research Field by Almut-Barbara Renger
- What is a ‘Buddhist Film?’ by John Whalen-Bridge
- ‘When You Wash the Rice, Wash the Rice.’ About the Cinematic Representation of Cooking and Zen in Doris Dörrie’s How to Cook Your Life (2007) by Andreas Becker
- The Transnational Buddhism of Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring by Francisca Cho
- Ethics of Inscrutability: Ontologies of Emptiness in Buddhist Film by Lina Verchery
- Trading a Notebook for a Camera: Toward a Theory of Collaborative, Ethnopoetic Filmmaking by Mark Patrick McGuire