Blindness, Blinking and Boredom: Seeing and Being in Buddhism and Film

This essay takes up a paradoxical problem articulated by Buddhist philosopher, Nishitani Keiji: the eye does not see the eye itself. It argues that film has a therapeutic function by virtue of its ability to draw our attention to this precise aspect of our existential situation; namely, that we alte...

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Main Author: Verchery, Lina (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI [2018]
In: Religions
Year: 2018, Volume: 9, Issue: 8, Pages: 1-21
Further subjects:B the uncanny valley
B Buddhism
B high frame rate cinema
B Film
B Emergence
B Aesthetics
B Embodiment
B film editing
B cinematic realism
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