Pedestrian dharma: slowness and seeing in Tsai Ming-Liang’s Walker

• 主要作者: NG, Teng-kuan
• 格式: text
• 語言: English
• 出版: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• 主題: Buddhism and modernity; contemplative studies; kinhin; slow cinema; transnational Chinese cinema; Tsai Ming-Liang; walking meditation; Zen ritual; Film and Media Studies; Religion
• 在線閱讀: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/52; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/cis_research/article/1051/viewcontent/religions_09_00200.pdf
• 機構: Singapore Management University

This paper studies the ways that Walker, a short film by the Malaysian-Taiwanese auteur Tsai Ming-Liang, visualizes the relationship between Buddhism and modernity. Via detailed film analysis as well as attention to sources in premodern Buddhist traditions, this paper argues that its filmic performa...