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| Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema | ||
| 作者 | Fuhrmann, Arnika (著) |
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| 出版日期 | 2016.06 |
| 頁次 | 272 |
| 出版者 | Duke University Pres |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.dukeupress.edu/ |
| 出版地 | Durham, NC, US [德罕, 北卡羅來納州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 書籍=Book |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Arnika Fuhrmann is Assistant Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at Cornell University. |
| 摘要 | 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. |
| 目次 | 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 |
| ISBN | 9780822361190 (hc); 9780822361558 (pbk); 9780822374251 (eb) |
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| 點閱次數 | 145 |
| 建檔日期 | 2023.06.19 |
| 更新日期 | 2023.06.19 |
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