{"product_id":"ghostly-desires-queer-sexuality-and-vernacular-buddhism-in-contemporary-thai-cinema","title":"Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eGhostly Desires: Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eArnika Fuhrmann\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780822361558\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eDuke University Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2016\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eThrough 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.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema | Arnika Fuhrmann | Paperback | 9780822361558 | Used: Like New | Anthropology 1693800 (temp: 25)","offer_id":48927905743000,"sku":"1693800","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71qtZGMbIOL.jpg?v=1777058420","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/ghostly-desires-queer-sexuality-and-vernacular-buddhism-in-contemporary-thai-cinema","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}