Tropical Malady: Film & the Question of the Uncanny Human-Animal
The acclaimed Thai film, Tropical Malady (2004), represents the tropics as a surreal place where conscious and unconscious are as inextricably entwined. Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Tropical Malady presents two interconnected stories: one a quirky gay love story; the other a strange discon...
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| Series: | eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics |
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| author | Barbara Creed |
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| description | The acclaimed Thai film, Tropical Malady (2004), represents the tropics as a surreal place where conscious and unconscious are as inextricably entwined. Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Tropical Malady presents two interconnected stories: one a quirky gay love story; the other a strange disconnected narrative about a shape-shifting shaman, a man-beast and a ghostly tiger. This paper will argue that from it beginnings in the silent period, the cinema has created an uncanny zone of tropicality where human and
animal merge. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c916b0f7c439456ab5cd394cb92b23822022-12-21T22:05:22ZengJames Cook UniversityeTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics1448-29402011-12-0110Tropical Malady: Film & the Question of the Uncanny Human-AnimalBarbara Creed0University of MelbourneThe acclaimed Thai film, Tropical Malady (2004), represents the tropics as a surreal place where conscious and unconscious are as inextricably entwined. Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Tropical Malady presents two interconnected stories: one a quirky gay love story; the other a strange disconnected narrative about a shape-shifting shaman, a man-beast and a ghostly tiger. This paper will argue that from it beginnings in the silent period, the cinema has created an uncanny zone of tropicality where human and animal merge.https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3414 |
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