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Book Synopsis Thematizations of the Goddess in South Asian Cinema by : Anway Mukhopadhyay
Download or read book Thematizations of the Goddess in South Asian Cinema written by Anway Mukhopadhyay and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-16 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection presents cross-disciplinary explorations of the tropes, themes and representational frameworks constellating around the figure of the Goddess in South Asian cinema. It critically approaches the Goddess theme in various genres of South Asian cinema, using analytical tools culled from gender studies, comparative cultural studies, and religious studies, as well as film semiotics. The films discussed here represent variegated thematizations of the Goddess across regions in South Asia, including Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and various geo-cultural locations in India. As the volume highlights the regional and politico-cultural differences and commonalities in representational schemes between South Asian films of different genres through the Goddess motif, it will appeal to scholars of film studies, South Asian studies and comparative religion, and will hold a special appeal for those interested in Goddess cultures and theology.
Book Synopsis Thematizations of the Goddess in South Asian Cinema by : Anway Mukhopadhyay
Download or read book Thematizations of the Goddess in South Asian Cinema written by Anway Mukhopadhyay and published by . This book was released on 2023-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection presents cross-disciplinary explorations of the tropes, themes and representational frameworks constellating around the figure of the Goddess in South Asian cinema. It critically approaches the Goddess theme in various genres of South Asian cinema, using analytical tools culled from gender studies, comparative cultural studies, and religious studies, as well as film semiotics. The films discussed here represent variegated thematizations of the Goddess across regions in South Asia, including Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and various geo-cultural locations in India. As the volume highlights the regional and politico-cultural differences and commonalities in representational schemes between South Asian films of different genres through the Goddess motif, it will appeal to scholars of film studies, South Asian studies and comparative religion, and will hold a special appeal for those interested in Goddess cultures and theology.
Book Synopsis Atheism and the Goddess by : Anway Mukhopadhyay
Download or read book Atheism and the Goddess written by Anway Mukhopadhyay and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to explore the complex modes of interface between religion, atheism, and the Goddess in multicultural contexts. While atheism has often been seen as an interrogation of and a battle against God, the gender dimension of this discourse has not been sufficiently negotiated. Is the fight against God also a fight against the Goddess? Or is there something common between the ideological thrust of the battle against God the “Father” in atheism and the interrogation of the Divine Father in thealogy? Can the Goddess be seen as an entity radically different from the imperious transcendental that the atheists find embodied in God the Father? Or, can the Goddess be seen as “transcendental” as well as immanent, and hence subjected to the same atheist denial of transcendence to which God is subjected in non-theistic or anti-theistic arguments? With this volume, Anway Mukhopadhyay embarks on a difficult project of epistemologically, ideologically and even politically renegotiating and reorienting some of the fundamental issues involved in the discussions of and debates over atheism.
Book Synopsis Finding Philosophers in Global Fiction by : Anway Mukhopadhyay
Download or read book Finding Philosophers in Global Fiction written by Anway Mukhopadhyay and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2024-09-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cross-cultural study that explores and redefines what philosophy, philosophizing, and philosophers are through the lens of literature. The academic discipline of philosophy may tell us, too rigidly, what a philosopher is or should be; but fictional narration often upholds the core conundrums of humankind in which philosophy germinates. This collection of essays explores whether a study of 'philosophers' at a planetary scale, or at least on a broad cross-cultural spectrum, can decouple philosophy from its academic aspect and lend it a more inclusive domain. Contributors to this volume play with three conceptual poles, making them interact with each other and get modified through this interaction: 'fiction', 'narrative' and 'philosopher'. How do these three terms get semantically modified and broadened in scope when we speak of the figures of philosophers in imaginative writing? How do these terms assume different connotations in different cultural contexts, interacting with the multiplicity of not just 'thought', but also the media and tools of 'thought'? Do we always think only rationally? Or do we also think with and through emotively powerful images, symbols and tropes? In the end, Finding Philosophers in Global Fiction insists on the need to 'de-elitize' and democratize the concept of a 'philosopher' by reflecting on the possibility of seeing a philosopher as one who sees things clearly, from any vantage point.
Book Synopsis Is the Goddess a Feminist? by : Alf Hiltebeitel
Download or read book Is the Goddess a Feminist? written by Alf Hiltebeitel and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Imaging the Goddess-woman by : Nkoyo Edoho-Eket
Download or read book Imaging the Goddess-woman written by Nkoyo Edoho-Eket and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The image of the Goddess in South Asia has shifted in response to a multitude of concerns, most recently in response to the rising popularity of feminism on the subcontinent. For this reason, depictions of Hindu Goddesses have come to be identified with human women in non-devotional settings as a means of increasing women's social and economic power in South Asia and abroad. This study pays particular attention to the modern reimagining of the conception of shakti, the cosmos-animating power of the universe associated with the divine feminine in Hindu thought. Further, while this feminist interpretation of shakti considers the power of the Goddess readily available to human women, it also imagines the Goddess as vulnerable to the same challenges that human women experience in their everyday lives. This has had a far-reaching impact on the visual culture of South Asia, as seen in the rise of an ambiguous, semi-divine Goddess-woman figure. This study posits that the depictions of the Goddess-woman are, following W.J.T. Mitchell, a "worldmaking" project that significantly informs the visual landscape of South Asian images, the rhetorical thrust of online social activism, and the formation of political subjectivities. The study's multidisciplinary critical approach combines the philosophy of religions, visual culture studies, and gender analysis to examine a diverse array of contemporary media, ranging from grassroots feminist posters to digital art. Through aesthetic and rhetorical analysis of South Asian visual culture, this study traces the migration and formation of new conceptions of the divine feminine oriented around a contemporary iteration of shakti, in order to understand the trajectory of the Goddess from devotional figure to an icon of women's empowerment in the popular imagination.
Book Synopsis Deities and Devotees by : DR. UMA. MAHESWARI BHRUGUBANDA
Download or read book Deities and Devotees written by DR. UMA. MAHESWARI BHRUGUBANDA and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A genealogical study of the intersections between cinema, religion and politics in Telugu mythological and devotional films.
Book Synopsis Nine Nights of the Goddess by : Caleb Simmons
Download or read book Nine Nights of the Goddess written by Caleb Simmons and published by Suny Press. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the contemporary nature and the diverse narratives, rituals, and performances of the Navarātri Festival.
Book Synopsis Gods & Goddesses of the Movies by : John Kobal
Download or read book Gods & Goddesses of the Movies written by John Kobal and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Literary and Cultural Readings of Goddess Spirituality by : Anway Mukhopadhyay
Download or read book Literary and Cultural Readings of Goddess Spirituality written by Anway Mukhopadhyay and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the potentials of Goddess spirituality in the field of cultural critique, and strings together innovative readings of already existing literary texts and cultural phenomena from the critical perspective of Goddess spirituality. The chapters explore a colourful array of texts and authors, and focus on issues as diverse as the persistence of the figure of the Magna Mater in the life, writing and thought of Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo, the inability of Advaita Vedanta to come out of the shadow of the Great Mother, the possibility of pluralizing the Eurocentric notion of the Muse by invoking the figure of Goddess Sarasvati in the field of English Studies, and a reappraisal of Kipling’s Kim from the perspective of the philosophical and spiritual discourses of Prajnaparamita, the Buddhist Goddess of Perfect Wisdom. The book also offers a comparative study of Minoan Goddess Spirituality and tantric philosophy with reference to Aphrodite, Diotima and the Indian Mother Goddesses, the possibility of simultaneously tantricizing notions of modernity and modernizing tantra itself with reference to the works of Lata Mani and William Schindler, and an investigation of the Mother-centric spiritual sensibilities in various religious discourses and devotional literatures, among other discussions. In short, this book investigates the possibilities of inserting the figure of the Great Mother into the critical domain of cultural pluralism, thereby celebrating a multiculturalism that is not based on violence and conflict (antagonism) but grounded in harmony. The Mother is seen by the discourse articulated here mainly as a middle ground between flesh and spirit, knowledge and passion, justice and compassion – and, in the red shadow of the Mother, social epistemologies and academic discourses are radically renegotiated.
Download or read book The Cinema Effect written by Sean Cubitt and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of images in motion that explores the"special effect" of cinema.
Book Synopsis The Challenge of Comparative Literature by : Claudio Guillén
Download or read book The Challenge of Comparative Literature written by Claudio Guillén and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, Claudio Guillen meditates on the elusive field of comparative literature and its vicissitudes since the early 19th century.
Book Synopsis The Authority of Female Speech in Indian Goddess Traditions by : Anway Mukhopadhyay
Download or read book The Authority of Female Speech in Indian Goddess Traditions written by Anway Mukhopadhyay and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary debates on “mansplaining” foreground the authority enjoyed by male speech, and highlight the way it projects listening as the responsibility of the dominated, and speech as the privilege of the dominant. What mansplaining denies systematically is the right of women to speak and be heard as much as men. This book excavates numerous instances of the authority of female speech from Indian goddess traditions and relates them to the contemporary gender debates, especially to the issues of mansplaining and womansplaining. These traditions present a paradigm of female speech that compels its male audience to reframe the configurations of “masculinity.” This tradition of authoritative female speech forms a continuum, even though there are many points of disjuncture as well as conjuncture between the Vedic, Upanishadic, puranic, and tantric figurations of the Goddess as an authoritative speaker. The book underlines the Goddess’s role as the spiritual mentor of her devotee, exemplified in the Devi Gitas, and re-situates the female gurus in Hinduism within the traditions that find in Devi’s speech ultimate spiritual authority. Moreover, it explores whether the figure of Devi as Womansplainer can encourage a more dialogic structure of gender relations in today’s world where female voices are still often undervalued.
Book Synopsis Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film by : Barry Keith Grant
Download or read book Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film written by Barry Keith Grant and published by Schirmer Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference source covers all aspects of the cinema, including film history, production, national cinemas, genre theory and criticism, and cultural contexts.
Book Synopsis Meaning in Action by : Toshio Sugiman
Download or read book Meaning in Action written by Toshio Sugiman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-04-10 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: are far from genetically ? xing what behavioral preferences they may possess. Instead, learning mechanisms offer a ? exible way of attaining locally important cultural knowledge within temporal windows of opportunity as has been convi- ingly shown by research in language and culture attainment. Similar mechanisms are likely to exist for other social capacities, such as mate preferences, for example. It is this role of our biological inheritance that social science must appreciate in order to furnish a more complete understanding of human behavior. Within the natural range of variation of capacities and armed with biologically conditioned learning mechanisms we live out lives of meaning – in which we hold some things to be real, rational, valuable or morally right, and others not. It is this world of meaning in which we ? nd love and hate, struggles for justice, power, and money, and the dramas that lend to life both its depth and passion.
Book Synopsis The Sublime Reader by : Robert R. Clewis
Download or read book The Sublime Reader written by Robert R. Clewis and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first English-language anthology to provide a compendium of primary source material on the sublime. The book takes a chronological approach, covering the earliest ancient traditions up through the early and late modern periods and into contemporary theory. It takes an inclusive, interdisciplinary approach to this key concept in aesthetics and criticism, representing voices and traditions that have often been excluded. As such, it will be of use and interest across the humanities and allied disciplines, from art criticism and literary theory, to gender and cultural studies and environmental philosophy. The anthology includes brief introductions to each selection, reading or discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, a bibliography and index – making it an ideal text for building a course around or for further study. The book's apparatus provides valuable context for exploring the history and contemporary views of the sublime.
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Book Synopsis Living Together by : Knut Stene-Johansen
Download or read book Living Together written by Knut Stene-Johansen and published by Transcript Verlag, Roswitha Gost, Sigrid Nokel u. Dr. Karin Werner. This book was released on 2018-10 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains new essays which investigate and actualize the concepts that Roland Barthes discussed in his 1977 lecture series, How to Live Together, at the Collège de France. The anthology presents original and thought-provoking approaches to questions of conviviality and idiorrhythmic life forms in literature, arts, and other media.
