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Download full textStroud, Scott R. – 2000
Both film and ancient religious writing have much in common, especially in regard to their ability to convey powerful messages to modern audiences. A study analyzed the timeless meta-narratives in the ancient Hindu poem, the "Bhagavad Gita," and in the 1998 American film, "The Thin Red Line." It used the methodology of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Film Criticism, Films, Literary Criticism
Stroud, Scott R. – 2000
This paper uses narrative criticism to analyze the ancient Indian religious poem, the "Bhagavad Gita." This important text, the second most widely translated piece of literature in the world, will receive much-deserved rhetorical attention to its narrative and how this helps construct issues of the self, the world, action, and ontology.…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Literary Criticism, Poetry, Religious Cultural Groups
