The Greatest Movie Never Made: The Life of the Buddha as Cold War Politics
This article explores the backstory of a 1953 screenplay on the life of the Buddha conceived by the CIA as a psychological warfare strategy to draw Asian Buddhists away from the Communist orbit and into the Free World. Developed in collaboration with Ceylonese Buddhist scholar G. P. Malalasekera, Ta...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
[2020]
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Religion and American culture
Year: 2020, Volume: 30, Issue: 3, Pages: 397-425 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Asians
/ Buddha 563 BC-483 BC
/ Biography
/ Film
/ East-West conflict
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy BL Buddhism KBQ North America ZC Politics in general |
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