RELS 26943 - Buddhism, Media & Film

Course Credit: 1
(EAST, FILM)
Buddhism, Media, & Film Buddhists have always been visual and mass media-involved religious traditions. This course studies Buddhism through Buddhist engagements with visual media, connecting historical Buddhist visual practices to contemporary engagements with and representations of Buddhism in a range of forms of mass media - electronic and otherwise: film, television, graphic novels, and so on. (Registration advising note: Even though this course has no prerequisite, it is not an introductory course. Recommended preparation is some course work in either film/media studies, or religious studies, or Buddhism.) [R]