Uttama, Choedphong
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Uttama, Choedphong
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Item type:Publication, Zombies, Zombified Thai Ravenous Spirits, and Thai Buddhism(2026-01-01)The global cinematic zombie genre has led to interactions with diverse cultures, resulting in diverse context-dependent adaptations. Similarly, the introduction of zombies as new monsters into cultural environments where they were hitherto unknown has enabled horror cinema to explore issues or themes beyond those conventionally associated with the culture’s indigenous monsters. In the Thai context, horror cinema predominantly consists of ghost films where Buddhism carries significantly thematic weight. The incorporation of zombies—creatures inherent with religiously subversive power—into this context has led to some forms of fusion with local ghosts and encounters with Thai Buddhism. In contrast to Thai ghosts, whose existence upholds and validates Buddhist principals, zombies undermine them, rendering them useless or insignificant. Examined in this chapter are two Thai zombie films, E-san of the Dead (2022) and E-sarn Zombies (2023). Both fuse zombies with phi pop, a ravenous folkloric spirit, a fusion that relies on the shared characteristics between the two creatures. The zombies then challenge some key Buddhist principles, a challenge that becomes a means for Thai horror cinema to go beyond the conventional role of doctrinal validation associated with Thai ghosts. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, “[T]hat Monstrous Machine of his”: The Machine Metaphor in John Cleland’s Memoir of a Woman of Pleasure(2021-01-01)John Cleland’s Memoir of a Woman of Pleasure (1748–49), commonly known as Fanny Hill, is regarded as the first pornographic novel in English literature. Its description of sexual activities is explicit but its language is not coarse. It employs a wide range of metaphors to refer to both sexual acts and genitalia and the metaphor used most frequently to refer to the penis is “the machine.” The machine metaphor will be the focus of this paper, which aims to argue that the machine metaphor carries two meanings. The first is the machine as one of military metaphors common in erotica since sexual acts have long been represented as battles. Female sexual pleasure, portrayed in this novel, depends on the state of being destroyed or conquered by a large machine. The second usage of the military metaphor suggests the strong affiliation between the penis and a hydraulic machine – the hydraulic penis—as this paper will call it. That is, female sexual pleasure is not only entwined with the state of being ruined but also with a fluid flow. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, The ghost-like zombies and their metaphorical reading in phi ha ayothaya/the black death (2015)(2021-05-01)Phi Ha Ayothaya/The Black Death (2015) is one of a few serious Thai zombie films which have been released theatrically. To make the Western zombies palatable to the Thai audience that is attracted to the ghost film, a popular genre in Thailand, the film, as this paper will show, employs strategies to create ghostlike zombies. This paper, firstly, aims to illustrate these strategies by the way in which the zombies are referred to as phi ha, a type of Thai folkloric ghost, and the way in which the zombies behave. The cultural beliefs associated with ghosts or ghost stories are also exploited to “ghostify” the zombies in the film, making the film closer to a ghost film. The ghost-like zombies, however, remain foreign monsters. The foreignness with which they are associated leads to another argument of this paper involving the metaphorical reading of these ghost-like zombies. They, similar to the zombies in many Thai zombie films, are a metaphor for corrupting foreign influences. These influences are destructive to the traditional values, religion and its teaching on impermanence. In addition, individuals are also corrupted by foreign influences as this is metaphorically represented by the character bitten and killed by a zombie having been infected with the foreign virus.