{"product_id":"cinema-illuminating-reality-1","title":"Cinema Illuminating Reality","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","brand":"Victor Fan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43573289681078,"sku":"9781517909925","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781517909925_eda88676-3492-4c67-b26f-790ed1e7316d.jpg?v=1726480769","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/cinema-illuminating-reality-1","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}