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Ghostly Desires - Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema (Hardcover)
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Ghostly Desires - Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema (Hardcover)
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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.
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