Killing the Buddha: Ritualized Violence in Fight Club through the Lens of Rinzai Zen Buddhist Practice
David Fincher may not be an expert in Buddhism. But his description of Fight Clubas reprising the figurative admonishment to kill the buddha by Lin-ji Yi-xuan (9th cent.), the founder of the Rinzai Zen Buddhist schoolilluminates the way that Fincher's own directorial choices mirror the ritu...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI
[2018]
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Religions
Year: 2018, Volume: 9, Issue: 7, Pages: 1-18 |
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Rinzai Zen
B film theory B Zen B Buddhism B Film B Violence B Ritual B Fight Club |
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