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- Title
The Missing View in Global Postsecular Cinema: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon as a Visual Kōan/Gong'an.
- Authors
Chang, Chia-Ju
- Abstract
This article explores intersections between critical theory, Buddhism (Chan/Zen in particular), and film studies in what Jürgen Habermas characterizes as the current 'post-secular society'. I use Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) as a case in point to unveil a hidden kōan/gong'an structure or subtext. I view the medium of film as a technology of Chan eudaimon that is capable of deconstructing a reified self and helping the viewer develop compassion for cultivating an awakened mind. Cinema, in this light, can be recruited to foster a collective, self-less mind and culture that is urgently needed in China and beyond.
- Subjects
BUDDHISM; HABERMAS, Jurgen, 1929-; POSTSECULARISM; MEDITATION; EMPTINESS (Philosophy)
- Publication
Paragraph, 2019, Vol 42, Issue 3, p370
- ISSN
0264-8334
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3366/para.2019.0312