Fuhrmann Arnika Fuhrmann

Ghostly Desires (eBook, PDF)

Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822374251
• Artikelnr.: 54670687

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