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847171
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Fuhrmann, Arnika
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Ghostly desires : : queer sexuality and vernacular Buddhism in contemporary Thai cinema /\ Arnika Fuhrmann.
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| Publication Statement
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Durham :: Duke University Press,, 2016.
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, ©2016
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1 online resource (xii, 255 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0822374250
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0822361191
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0822361558
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9780822361190
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9780822361558
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-248) and index.
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| Contents
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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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| 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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Buddhism in motion pictures.
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Ghosts in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures-- Thailand.
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Sexual minorities in motion pictures.
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Buddhism in motion pictures.
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Ghosts in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures.
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PERFORMING ARTS / Film Video / History Criticism
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PERFORMING ARTS-- Reference.
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Sexual minorities in motion pictures.
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Thailand.
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| Dewey Classification
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791.4309593
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PN1993.5.T5F847 2016
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