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Mysterious Objects of Knowledge: An Interpretation of Three Feature Films by Apichatpong Weerasethakul in Terms of the Ethnographic Paradigm

Ferrari, Matthew P.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1150466591

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2006, Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, Film (Fine Arts).
Three feature films from acclaimed Thai art film director Apichatpong Weerasethakul–Mysterious Object at Noon, Blissfully Yours, and Tropical Malady are interpreted here within the context of ethnographic discourse. In particular, this thesis argues for an appreciation of the films as experimental ethnographic “writings” closely bound to the generic blurring of non-fiction and fiction film modes. Furthermore, recurring anthropological thematics are situated within the discursive web of writer-text-reader relations. One especially prominent and overarching thematic addressed throughout is the evocation of local or traditional knowledge in an increasingly globalized Thai cultural setting, and how this is enacted formally by a society/nature dialectic. Finally, these films are situated within a broader art world shift towards quasi-anthropological art in which a primitivist paradigm is still very much in operation, implicating the artist’s cultural identity in relation to the cultural content of the works and the cultural location of their dominant interpretive community.
Adam Knee (Advisor)
86 p.
Thai Film; ethnographic film; documentary; experimental film

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  • Ferrari, M. P. (2006). Mysterious Objects of Knowledge: An Interpretation of Three Feature Films by Apichatpong Weerasethakul in Terms of the Ethnographic Paradigm [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1150466591

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Ferrari, Matthew. Mysterious Objects of Knowledge: An Interpretation of Three Feature Films by Apichatpong Weerasethakul in Terms of the Ethnographic Paradigm. 2006. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1150466591.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Ferrari, Matthew. "Mysterious Objects of Knowledge: An Interpretation of Three Feature Films by Apichatpong Weerasethakul in Terms of the Ethnographic Paradigm." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1150466591

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