Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-248) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Buddhist sexual contemporaneity -- Nang Nak's Ghost wife: desire, embodiment, and Buddhist melancholia in a contemporary Thai ghost film -- The ghost seer: Chinese Thai minority subjectivity, female agency, and the transnational uncanny in the films of Danny and Oxide Pang -- Tropical malady: same-sex desire, casualness, and the queering of impermanence in the cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul -- Making contact: contingency, fantasy, and the performance of impossible intimacies in the video art of Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook Coda -- Under permanent exception: thai Buddhist-Muslim coexistence, interreligious intimacy, and the filmic archive.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
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22573/ctv11gtmzp
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Title
Ghostly desires.
International Standard Book Number
9780822361190
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Buddhism in motion pictures.
Ghosts in motion pictures.
Motion pictures-- Thailand.
Sexual minorities in motion pictures.
Buddhism in motion pictures.
Ghosts in motion pictures.
Motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism