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Thai Cinema

Author : Mary J. Ainslie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838609261
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (386 download)

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Download or read book Thai Cinema written by Mary J. Ainslie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the fastest growing and most internationally renowned cinemas in Southeast Asia is that of Thailand. In the first ever book devoted solely to this major centre of creative filmmaking, experts on contemporary and historic Thai film provide a timely overview and discussion of key films, directors and current movements in the region in a comprehensive encyclopaedia format. What many critics, analysts and scholars have retrospectively christened `New Thai Cinema' began to take shape in the late 1990s when national film moved away from its position as lower-class and provincial entertainment and became a firm fixture in Bangkok multiplexes and festivals worldwide. This book will provide information on the influential figures behind the films - up to and succeeding the 1997 watershed film Dang Bireley's and Young Gangsters that began the breakaway movement - as well as detailing and explaining the traditions of popular and art-house genres specific to Thailand. Featuring contributions on Thai visionaries such as Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Wisit Sasanatieng and providing rare insight into early Thai cinema, this is an essential scholarly guide to a vibrant aspect of Southeast Asian cinema - its history, industry and aesthetic trends - for scholars and students alike.

Thai Cinema Uncensored

Author : Matthew Hunt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9786162151699
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Thai Cinema Uncensored written by Matthew Hunt and published by . This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first full-length study on the topic, Matthew Hunt--with access to rare and controversial films--provides a history of film censorship in Thailand. Hunt outlines its beginnings in the country, when films were censored by the police for political and ideological reasons, rather than on the basis of taste and decency, to the present when issues such as politics, religion, and sex are the main reasons films are banned. He also examines how Thai filmmakers approach culturally sensitive subjects and how their films have been censored as a result. Hunt presents interviews with ten leading directors, including conversations with Thai New Wave veterans Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Pen-ek Ratanaruang. In these interviews, the directors discuss their most controversial films, which range from mainstream studio movies to independent arthouse releases, and explain their responses to censorship.

Horror International

Author : Steven Jay Schneider
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814331019
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Horror International written by Steven Jay Schneider and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As global cinema becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish, characterizations of horror films from various geographical and cultural locations seem more fluid and transitional than ever before. However, this does not mean denying the existence of national features that affect and are reflected in horror films, whether from an artistic or a reception standpoint. Horror is one of the most studied genres in cinema, yet none of the many books on the subject focus on films or traditions outside the United States or the United Kingdom. While Italian, Japanese, Mexican, German, and Hong Kong horror films have received a modicum of critical recognition, the areas of Egyptian, Romanian, Belgian, Dutch, New Zealand, and Thai horror all still need-in fact, demand-some attention. Horror International seeks to rectify this by giving the global perspectives and cross-cultural dynamics of world horror cinema its due. This groundbreaking collection of eighteen original essays examine a myriad of films, showing how each draws from Hollywood horror conventions and also local cinematic traditions, local folklore, and national historical and cultural concerns. The production, marketing, and reception of various national cinemas are also addressed, demonstrating how these films are understood by different audiences worldwide. This in turn sheds new light on the original cultural production of many works and their subsequent "translations" and meanings in different national contexts. The diverse and highly informative essays in Horror International will engross both scholars and fans of horror films and finally illuminate the distinct multicultural factors of this exciting cinematic genre.

Thai Cinema

Author : Mary J. Ainslie
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
ISBN 13 : 9781788311410
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Thai Cinema written by Mary J. Ainslie and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the fastest growing and most internationally renowned cinemas in Southeast Asia is that of Thailand. In the first ever book devoted solely to this major centre of creative filmmaking, experts on contemporary and historic Thai film provide a timely overview and discussion of key films, directors and current movements in the region in a comprehensive encyclopaedia format. What many critics, analysts and scholars have retrospectively christened `New Thai Cinema' began to take shape in the late 1990s when national film moved away from its position as lower-class and provincial entertainment and became a firm fixture in Bangkok multiplexes and festivals worldwide. This book will provide information on the influential figures behind the films - up to and succeeding the 1997 watershed film Dang Bireley's and Young Gangsters that began the breakaway movement - as well as detailing and explaining the traditions of popular and art-house genres specific to Thailand. Featuring contributions on Thai visionaries such as Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Wisit Sasanatieng and providing rare insight into early Thai cinema, this is an essential scholarly guide to a vibrant aspect of Southeast Asian cinema - its history, industry and aesthetic trends - for scholars and students alike.

Rural Cinema Exhibition and Audiences in a Global Context

Author : Daniela Treveri Gennari
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319663445
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Rural Cinema Exhibition and Audiences in a Global Context written by Daniela Treveri Gennari and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-19 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although it has only been in the last decade that the planet’s population balance tipped from a predominantly rural makeup towards an urban one, the field of cinema history has demonstrated a disproportionate skew toward the urban. Within audience studies, however, an increasing number of scholars are turning their attention away from the bright lights of the urban, and towards the less well-lit and infinitely more variegated history of rural cinema-going. Rural Cinema Exhibition and Audiences in A Global Context is the first volume to consider rural cinema-going from a global perspective. It aims to provide a rich and wide-ranging introduction to this growing field, and to further develop some of its key questions. It brings together eighteen international scholars or teams, all representatives of a dynamic, new field. Moving beyond a Western focus is essential for thinking through questions of rural exhibition, distribution and cinema experience, since over the relatively short history of cinema it is the rural that has dominated cinema-goers’ lives in much of the developing world. To this end, the volume also innovates by bringing discussions of North American and European ruralities into dialogue with contributions on Kenya, Brazil, China, Thailand, South Africa and Australia.

Transnational Horror Cinema

Author : Sophia Siddique
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137584173
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Transnational Horror Cinema written by Sophia Siddique and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book broadens the frameworks by which horror is generally addressed. Rather than being constrained by psychoanalytical models of repression and castration, the volume embraces M.M. Bakhtin’s theory of the grotesque body. For Bakhtin, the grotesque body is always a political body, one that exceeds the boundaries and borders that seek to contain it, to make it behave and conform. This vital theoretical intervention allows Transnational Horror Cinema to widen its scope to the social and cultural work of these global bodies of excess and the economy of their grotesque exchanges. With this in mind, the authors consider these bodies’ potentials to explore and perhaps to explode rigid cultural scripts of embodiment, including gender, race, and ability.

Early Cinema in Asia

Author : Nick Deocampo
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253034442
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Early Cinema in Asia written by Nick Deocampo and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-09 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Cinema in Asia explores how cinema became a popular medium in the world's largest and most diverse continent. Beginning with the end of Asia's colonial period in the 19th century, contributors to this volume document the struggle by pioneering figures to introduce the medium of film to the vast continent, overcoming geographic, technological, and cultural difficulties. As an early form of globalization, film's arrival and phenomenal growth throughout various Asian countries penetrated not only colonial territories but also captivated collective states of imagination. With the coming of the 20th century, the medium that began as mere entertainment became a means for communicating many of the cultural identities of the region's ethnic nationalities, as they turned their favorite pastime into an expression of their cherished national cultures. Covering diverse locations, including China, India, Japan, Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Iran, and the countries of the Pacific Islands, contributors to this volume reveal the story of early cinema in Asia, helping us to understand the first seeds of a medium that has since grown deep roots in the region.

East Asian Cinemas

Author : Leon Hunt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857736361
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book East Asian Cinemas written by Leon Hunt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-18 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinemas from East Asia are among the most exciting and influential in the world. They are attracting popular and critical attention on a global scale, with films from the region circulating as art house, cult, blockbuster and 'extreme' cinema, or as Hollywood remakes. This book explores developments in the global popularity of East Asian cinema, from Chinese martial arts, through Japanese horror, to the burgeoning new Korean cinema, with particular emphasis on crossovers, remakes, hybrids and co-productions. It examines changing cinematic traditions in Asia alongside the 'Asianisation' of western cinema. It explores the dialogue not only between 'East' and 'West', but between different cinemas in the Asia Pacific. What do these trends mean for global cinema? How are co-productions and crossover films changing the nature of Hollywood and East Asian cinemas? The book includes in-depth studies of Park Chan-wook, 'Infernal Affairs', 'Seven Samurai', and 'Princess Mononoke'.

Cinemas, Identities and Beyond

Author : D. H. Fleming
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527556670
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Cinemas, Identities and Beyond written by D. H. Fleming and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinemas, Identities and Beyond examines different modes of representing and constructing identities in and through the medium of film, transcending the narrow confines of the local / national / regional, and challenging spatial and temporal boundaries. It gathers fifteen essays that explore different dimensions of identities in contexts ranging from domestic spheres, urban milieus, socio-political environments, diasporic film-making issues, anthropology, film festivals, and psychoanalysis, to the examination of stardom in society. Engaging with cinematic representations, narrative conventions, film form, industry concerns, and other socio-cultural-economic-political factors relating to the production, distribution, exhibition and consumption of film, Cinemas, Identities and Beyond contributes to one of the most thought-provoking contemporary debates on cinemas and identities in film studies. Revisiting films such as Farewell My Concubine, The Matrix trilogy, The Straight Story, El Topo, and Days of Being Wild, this anthology establishes a framework that actively queries stabilised, ideological paradigms. The book discovers new frontiers and discourses to help us better understand ourselves and our surroundings when another decade of the new millennium is about to begin. Cinemas, Identities and Beyond will prove to be of value to a broad range of scholars, critics and students who are interested in issues pertaining to identities, and their construction in and beyond film.

Virtual Thailand

Author : Glen Lewis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415364997
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (649 download)

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Download or read book Virtual Thailand written by Glen Lewis and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating political economy and media theory, Lewis provides a unique insight into globalization in Southeast Asia, analyzing the role of communications and media in regional cultural politics.

The Report: Thailand 2011

Author :
Publisher : Oxford Business Group
ISBN 13 : 1907065385
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Report: Thailand 2011 written by and published by Oxford Business Group. This book was released on 2011 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Thai Cinema

Author : Mary J. Ainslie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838609253
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (386 download)

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Ghost Movies in Southeast Asia and Beyond

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004323643
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Ghost Movies in Southeast Asia and Beyond written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghost Movies in Southeast Asia and Beyond explores ghost movies, one of the most popular film genres in East and Southeast Asia, by focusing on movie narratives, the cultural contexts of their origins and audience reception.

Film in Contemporary Southeast Asia

Author : David C. L. Lim
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136592474
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Film in Contemporary Southeast Asia written by David C. L. Lim and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses contemporary film in all the main countries of Southeast Asia, and the social practices and ideologies which films either represent or oppose. It shows how film acquires signification through cultural interpretation, and how film also serves as a site of contestations between social and political agents seeking to promote, challenge, or erase certain meanings, messages or ideas from public circulation. A unique feature of the book is that it focuses as much on films as it does on the societies from which these films emerge: it considers the reasons for film-makers taking the positions they take; the positions and counter-positions taken; the response of different communities; and the extent to which these interventions are connected to global flows of culture and capital. The wide range of subjects covered include documentaries as political interventions in Singapore; political film-makers’ collectives in the Philippines, and films about prostitution in Cambodia and patriotism in Malaysia, and the Chinese in Indonesia. The book analyses films from Burma, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines, across a broad range of productions – such as mainstream and independent features across genres (for example comedy, patriotic, political, historical genres) alongside documentary, classic and diasporic films.

A Dictionary of Film Studies

Author : Annette Kuhn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192568043
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Film Studies written by Annette Kuhn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dictionary of Film Studies covers all aspects of its discipline as it is currently taught at undergraduate level. Offering exhaustive and authoritative coverage, this A-Z is written by experts in the field, and covers terms, concepts, debates, and movements in film theory and criticism; national, international, and transnational cinemas; film history, movements, and genres; film industry organizations and practices; and key technical terms and concepts. Since its first publication in 2012, the dictionary has been updated to incorporate over 40 new entries, including computer games and film, disability, ecocinema, identity, portmanteau film, Practice as Research, and film in Vietnam. Moreover, numerous revisions have been made to existing entries to account for developments in the discipline, and changes to film institutions more generally. Indices of films and filmmakers mentioned in the text are included for easy access to relevant entries. The dictionary also has 13 feature articles on popular topics and terms, revised and informative bibliographies for most entries, and more than 100 web links to supplement the text.

Queer Bangkok

Author : Peter A. Jackson
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 988808304X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Queer Bangkok written by Peter A. Jackson and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thai capital Bangkok is the unrivalled centre of the country's gay, lesbian and transgender communities. These communities are among the largest in Southeast Asia, and indeed in the world, and have a diversity, social presence and historical depth that set them apart from the queer cultures of many neighbouring societies. The first years of the 21st Century have marked a significant transition moment for all of Thailand's LGBT cultures, with a multidimensional expansion in the geographical extent, media presence, economic importance, political impact, social standing, and cultural relevance of Thai queer communities. This book analyzes the roles of the market and media - especially cinema and the Internet - in these transformations, and considers the ambiguous consequences that the growing commodification and mediatisation of queer lives have had for LGBT rights in Thailand. A key finding is that in the early 21st Century processes of global queering are leading to a growing Asianisation of Bangkok's queer cultures. This book traces Bangkok's emergence as a central focus of an expanding regional network linking gay, lesbian and transgender communities in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia, the Philippines and other rapidly developing East and Southeast Asian societies. Peter A. Jacksonis associate professor in the School of Culture, History and Language at Australian National University. "The myriad faces of Thai gender/sexuality culture have been an attraction for both pleasure-seekers and researchers/scholars/activists. Exploring the rapidly changing LGBT cultures and Thai queer identities, the essays collected here provide insightful analyses of historical continuities as well as developing variations within the highly complex erotic/economic texture of Thai society. A must-read for anyone in the booming field of gender/sexuality studies." -Josephine Ho, Chair Professor, Center for the Study of Sexualities, National Central University, Taiwan

Experts in Action

Author : Lauren Steimer
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478021268
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Experts in Action written by Lauren Steimer and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-11 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Action movie stars ranging from Jackie Chan to lesser-known stunt women and men like Zoë Bell and Chad Stahelski stun their audiences with virtuosic martial arts displays, physical prowess, and complex fight sequences. Their performance styles originate from action movies that emerged in the industrial environment of 1980s Hong Kong. In Experts in Action Lauren Steimer examines how Hong Kong--influenced cinema aesthetics and stunt techniques have been taken up, imitated, and reinvented in other locations and production contexts in Hollywood, New Zealand, and Thailand. Foregrounding the transnational circulation of Hong Kong--influenced films, television shows, stars, choreographers, and stunt workers, she shows how stunt workers like Chan, Bell, and others combine techniques from martial arts, dance, Peking opera, and the history of movie and television stunting practices to create embodied performances that are both spectacular and, sometimes, rendered invisible. By describing the training, skills, and labor involved in stunt work as well as the location-dependent material conditions and regulations that impact it, Steimer illuminates the expertise of the workers whose labor is indispensable to some of the world's most popular movies.