02056cam a2200289 i 4500001001300000003000600013007000300019008004100022020001800063020001500081035002100096050002600117100002200143245011100165260005000276300002400326504005100350505065200401520043801053650003101491650003301522650003101555650004201586942001201628952011101640999001501751ocn919341889OCoLCta210323s2016    ncua     b    001 0 eng c  a9780822361558  a0822361558  a(OCoLC)919341889  aPN1993.5.T5bF84 20161 aFuhrmann, Arnika.10aGhostly desires :bqueer sexuality and vernacular Buddhism in contemporary Thai cinema /cArnika Fuhrmann.  aDurham, NC : bDuke University Press, c2016.  axii, 255 p. :bill.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aBuddhist sexual contemporaneity -- Nang Nak---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.  aThrough 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 analyses draw on Buddhist-informed conceptions of impermanence and prominently feature the motif of the female ghost. 4aMotion pictureszThailand. 4aBuddhism in motion pictures. 4aGhosts in motion pictures. 4aSexual minorities in motion pictures.  2lcccBK  00104070aPNLIBbPNLIBcGENd2021-06-17oPN1993.5.T5 F84 2016pPNLIB21061043r2021-06-17w2021-06-17yBK  c1229d1229