Ghostly desires queer sexuality and vernacular Buddhism in contemporary Thai cinema

Buddhist sexual contemporaneityNang 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-...

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1. Verfasser: Fuhrmann, Arnika (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Durham, London Duke University Press 2016
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Zusammenfassung:Buddhist sexual contemporaneityNang 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.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:xii, 255 pages
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ISBN:9780822361558
978-0-8223-6155-8
9780822361190
978-0-8223-6119-0