“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 morerecent Thai cinema challenge us to refashion theory."
Peter A. Jackson
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
"A deft and delicately defined analysis of the intersections between queer sexuality, vernacular Buddhist tenets and Thai cinema, tales and images."
Rachel Harrison
Sojourn
"Ghostly Desires has achieved a rare accomplishment in the field of Thai studies. It fuses innovative, postmodern theoretical sophistication with a rich grounding and expertise in the Thai cultural, historical, and aesthetic context."
Megan Sinnott
Sojourn
"Fuhrmann mines the rich materialist indexicality of ghosts to dazzling effect in her brilliant new study of queer sexuality and Buddhist-coded tropologies of desire . . . singularly impressive achievement that stages valuable interventions in competing interdisciplinary debates about cinema, religion, and sexual publics. . . . A dazzling debut from an important new voice in feminist, queer, and Asian cultural studies that deserves a wide and appreciative readership."
Brett Farmer
GLQ
"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
Journal of Asian Studies
"Ghostly Desires entreats viewers to cast their glance anew in the direction of cinema’s apparitions, mapping spectral desire along previously undetected coordinates of queerness and counternormativity. Its interdisciplinary orientation renders Ghostly Desires an essential contribution to scholarship across cinema studies, Southeast Asian studies, queer and affect theory, Buddhist studies, and beyond. Fuhrmann’s is a provocative and illuminating study rendered in a register no less haunting than its subject matter."
Laura Isabel Serna and Mashinka Firunts Hakopian
Journal of Cinema and Media Studies
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