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Polluted Water

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Author	Farmer, Brett
Copyright Year	2019
Description	Poj Arnon (1970–) is the most commercially successful film-maker working in Thai cinema today, but his films remain little known on the international stage. His lurid, genre-bending mash-ups of horror, comedy, and sex are routine crowd-pleasers at the Thai box-office, but their carnivalesque surrealism has generally proved resistant to easy transcultural reception. Even domestically, Arnon's films are often dismissed by critics and cultural commentators as populist trash or what in Thai are colloquially termed, 'nam nao / polluted water'. This paper offers a critical recuperation of Arnon's oeuvre as a significant expression of popular Thai cinematic abjection. Focussing on the director's hugely successful series of horror comedies – Hor Taew Tak / Oh My Ghosts I, II, III and Pak Ma Tha Phi / Make Me Shudder I, II, III – it develops a reading of these films as invested in politically resonant processes of queer category rupture in which a series of monstrous psychic and social others – women, gays, kathoei, and up-country provincials – emerge to unsettle Thai cultural hegemonies. Book Name: Re-reading the Monstrous-Feminine
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Ending Page	208
Page Count	16
Starting Page	193
DOI	10.4324/9780429469367-15
Language	English
Publisher	Informa UK Limited
Publisher Date	2019-10-08
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Book Name: Re-reading the Monstrous-feminine Cultural Studies Horror Comedies Successful Thai Box
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Chapter

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