Arnika Fuhrmann

Ghostly Desires

Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema

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Produktbeschreibung

In Ghostly Desires Arnika Fuhrmann examines post-1997 Thai cinema and video art to show how vernacular Buddhist values, stories, and images combine with sexual politics in figuring in current struggles over gender, sexuality, personhood, and collective life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780822361190
• ISBN-10: 0822361191
• Artikelnr.: 43708021

Autorenporträt

Arnika Fuhrmann is Assistant Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at Cornell University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction. Buddhist Sexual Contemporaneity  1
1. Nang-Nak—Ghost Wife: Desire, Embodiment, and Buddhist Melancholia in a
Contemporary Thai Ghost Film  47
2. The Ghost Seer: Chinese Thai Minority Subjectivity, Female Agency, and
the Transnational Uncanny in the Films of Danny and Oxide Pang  87
3. Tropical Malady: Same-Sex Desire, Casualness, and the Queering of
Impermanence in the Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul  122
4. Making Contact: Contingency, Fantasy, and the Performance of Impossible
Intimacies in the Video Art of Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook  160
Coda. Under Permanent Exception: Thai Buddhist-Muslim Coexistence,
Interreligious Intimacy, and the Filmic Archive  185
Notes  199
Bibliography  231
Index  249