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Ghostly desires : queer sexuality and vernacular Buddhism in contemporary Thai cinema / Arnika Fuhrmann.
LIBRA PN1993.5.T5 F847 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fuhrmann, Arnika, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Thailand.
- Motion pictures.
- Buddhism in motion pictures.
- Ghosts in motion pictures.
- Sexual minorities in motion pictures.
- Thailand.
- LGBTQ+ films.
- LGBTQ+ people.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- Through an examination of post-1997 Thai cinema and video art Arnika Fuhrmann shows how vernacular Buddhist tenets, stories, and images combine with sexual politics in figuring current struggles over notions of personhood, sexuality, and collective life. The drama, horror, heritage, and experimental art films she analyzes draw on Buddhist-informed conceptions of impermanence and prominently feature the motif of the female ghost. In these films the characters' eroticization in the spheres of loss and death represents an improvisation on the Buddhist disavowal of attachment and highlights under-recognized female and queer desire and persistence. Her feminist and queer readings reveal the entangled relationships between film, sexuality, Buddhist ideas, and the Thai state's regulation of heteronormative sexuality. Fuhrmann thereby provides insights into the configuration of contemporary Thailand while opening up new possibilities for thinking about queer personhood and femininity. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Buddhist sexual contemporaneity
- Nang Nak's Ghost wife: desire, embodiment, and Buddhist melancholia in a contemporary Thai ghost film
- The ghost seer: Chinese Thai minority subjectivity, female agency, and the transnational uncanny in the films of Danny and Oxide Pang
- Tropical malady: same-sex desire, casualness, and the queering of impermanence in the cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Making contact: contingency, fantasy, and the performance of impossible intimacies in the video art of Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook Coda
- Under permanent exception: thai Buddhist-Muslim coexistence, interreligious intimacy, and the filmic archive.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Fuhrmann, Arnika, 1967- author. Ghostly desires.
- ISBN:
- 9780822361190
- 0822361191
- 9780822361558
- 0822361558
- OCLC:
- 919341889
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