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9%OFFArnika Fuhrmann - Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema - 9780822361558 - V9780822361558
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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 Paperback. 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: 231 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 404.
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

Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822361558
SKU
V9780822361558
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Ref
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
Brilliant ... Arnika Fuhrmann's transdisciplinary approach is a perfect example of what the queering of area studies can look like and thus fits well with the idea of New Area Studies research and its goal to investigate situated differences and formulate mid-range concepts.
Benjamin Baumann
The Journal of Asian Studies
Fuhrmann mines the rich materialist ... Read more

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