Buddhism and American Cinema

Buddhism and American CinemaDiscusses both depictions of Buddhism in film and Buddhist takes on a variety of films. In 1989, the same year the Dalai Lama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, a decade long boom of films dedicated to Buddhist people, history, and culture began. Offering the first scholarly treatment of Buddhism and cinema, the editors advise that there are two kinds of Buddhist film: those that are about Buddhists and those that are not. Focusing on contemporary

government policies

and social theory

The studies herein explore the long history of water politics in human society

Gesine Stephan

Examining the labor movements in the US

Based on a newly revised theory of relaxation

the book contributes to the debate on institutional dynamism

Taking up Derrida's concern with performative ethics

previously mainly undertaken on mammal subjects

Though it is mostly seen as a war between the Dutch and the Spanish

The love of books explores the bond between people and books in the UK

feminist ethics and politics