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Arnika Fuhrmann - Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema - 9780822361190 - V9780822361190
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Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema

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Description for Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema Hardback. 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. Num Pages: 272 pages, 29 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMT; APFA; HBJF; JFSK2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822361190
SKU
V9780822361190
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99-50

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

Reviews for Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema
“Ghostly Desires is about much more than Thai cinema. Fuhrmann pursues these diverse moving image-makers far beyond the nation’s moral-institutional architecture; and their “queering” of that architecture takes her far beyond the critical conventions of gender studies.”
David Teh
Pacific Affairs
"Ghostly Desires has indeed opened new conversations on the question of how the diverse genres of ... Read more

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