Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Images and Imaginings -- Part 1 Surviving Community -- 1. Poetry Written with Blood: Creating Death in Dead Man -- 2. Joseph and His Brothers: Quarreling After the Holocaust -- Part 2 Desiring Community -- 3. The End of Desire: Theologies of Eros in the Song of Songs and Breaking the Waves -- 4. Transgressing Goodness in Breaking the Waves -- Part 3 Eating Community -- 5. Cinematic Communion?: Babette's Feast, Transcendental Style, and Interdisciplinarity -- 6. When Your Family is Other, and the Other Your Family: Freedom and Obligation in Frank Capra's You Can't Take it With You -- Part 4 Colonizing Community -- 7. "What Happened in the Cave?" Communities and Outsiders in Films of India -- 8. Postmodernism and Neo-Orientalism: Peter Brook's Mahabharata- Producing India Through a Body of Multicultural Images -- Part 5 Ending Community -- 9. Imagining Nothing and Imaging Otherness in Buddhist Film -- 10. Behold Thou the Behemoth: Imaging the Unimaginable in Monster Movies -- Afterword: Otherness ad infinitum -- Contributors -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.