Ghostly desires
Subtitle: queer sexuality and vernacular Buddhism in contemporary Thai cinema
By: Arnika Fuhrmann
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780822361190; 9780822361558
Subjects: Motion pictures; Buddhism in motion pictures; Sexual minorities in motion pictures; Ghosts in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-248) and index.
Table of contents: title: Buddhist sexual contemporaneity; title: Nang Nak's Ghost wife: desire, embodiment, and Buddhist melancholia in a contemporary Thai ghost film; title: The ghost seer: Chinese Thai minority subjectivity, female agency, and the transnational uncanny in the films of Danny and Oxide Pang; title: Tropical malady: same-sex desire, casualness, and the queering of impermanence in the cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul; title: Making contact: contingency, fantasy, and the performance of impossible intimacies in the video art of Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook Coda; title: Under permanent exception: thai Buddhist-Muslim coexistence, interreligious intimacy, and the filmic archive.