Avatar and Nature Spirituality (Environmental Humanities)

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Avatar and Nature Spirituality (Environmental Humanities)

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  • 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 378 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9781554588435
  • DDC分類 791.4372

Full Description

Avatar and Nature Spirituality explores the cultural and religious significance of James Cameron's film Avatar (2010), one of the most commercially successful motion pictures of all time. Its success was due in no small measure to the beauty of the Pandora landscape and the dramatic, heart-wrenching plight of its nature-venerating inhabitants. To some audience members, the film was inspirational, leading them to express affinity with the film's message of ecological interdependence and animistic spirituality. Some were moved to support the efforts of indigenous peoples, who were metaphorically and sympathetically depicted in the film, to protect their cultures and environments. To others, the film was politically, ethically, or spiritually dangerous. Indeed, the global reception to the film was intense, contested, and often confusing.

To illuminate the film and its reception, this book draws on an interdisciplinary team of scholars, experts in indigenous traditions, religious studies, anthropology, literature and film, and post-colonial studies. Readers will learn about the cultural and religious trends that gave rise to the film and the reasons these trends are feared, resisted, and criticized, enabling them to wrestle with their own views, not only about the film but about the controversy surrounding it. Like the film itself, Avatar and Nature Spirituality provides an opportunity for considering afresh the ongoing struggle to determine how we should live on our home planet, and what sorts of political, economic, and spiritual values and practices would best guide us.

Contents

Table of Contents for Avatar and Nature Spirituality edited by Bron Taylor

PART I BRINGING AVATAR INTO FOCUS
Prologue: Avatar as Rorschach Bron Taylor
Introduction: The Religion and Politics of Avatar Bron Taylor
Avatar: Ecorealism and the Blockbuster Melodrama Stephen Rust
Outer Space Religion and the Ambiguous Nature of Avatar's Pandora Thore Bjørnvig

PART II POPULAR RESPONSES
Avatar Fandom, Environmentalism, and Nature Religion Britt Istoft
Post-Pandoran Depression or Na'vi Sympathy: Avatar, Affect, and Audience Reception Matthew Holtmeier
Transposing the Conversation into Popular Idiom: The reaction to Avatar in Hawai'i Rachelle K. Gould, Nicole M. Ardoin, and Jennifer Kamakanipakolonahe'okekai Hashimoto
Watching Avatar from ""AvaTar Sands"" Land Randolph Haluza-Delay, Michael P. Ferber, and Tim Wiebe-Neufeld
PART III CRITICAL, EMOTIONAL & SPIRITUAL RELFECTIONS
Becoming the ""Noble Savage"": Nature Religion and the ""Other"" in Avatar Chris Klassen
The Na'vi as Spiritual Hunters: A Semiotic Exploration Pat Munday
Calling the Na'vi: Evolutionary Jungian Psychology and Nature Spirits Bruce MacLennan
Avatar and Artemis: Indigenous Narratives as Neo-Romantic Environmental Ethics Joy H. Greenberg
Spirituality and Resistance: Avatar Ursula Le Guin's The Word for World Is Forest David Landis Barnhill
I See You: Interspecies Empathy and Avatar Lisa H. Sideris
Knowing Pandora in Sound: Acoustemology and Ecomusicological Imagination in Cameron's Avatar Michael B. MacDonald
Works of Doubt and Leaps of Faith: An Augustinian Challenge to Planetary Resilience Jacob von Heland and Sverker Sørlin
Epilogue: Truth and Fiction in Avatar's Cosmogony and Nature Religion Bron Taylor
Afterword: Considering the Legacies of Avatar Daniel Heath Justice
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