Coping with the Past: History in Thai Contemporary Films
Dr LIEW Kai Khiun
6th Annual Southeast Asian Cinema Conference
Circuits of Exchange (within)in Southeast Asian Cinemas
Re-Modernizing and Re-Primordialization Thai Films and the Construction of Thai-ness
•Spared from Colonialism: Thai Exceptionalism in Southeast Asia
•Selective “modernization” and “Westernization”
•Monarchy and tradition as guarantee of Thailand’s sovereignty and well being
•Post-1997 Thai films as providing spatial and temporal imaginations to read and re-read Thailand’s treatment of its more modern past.
Reading Subversive Subaltern
Fantasies within the Dominant Text
•Engagement with Modernity
•Socio-political hierarchies and mobility
•Identity and place
Becoming Modern: Appropriating Technology, attaining Equality
Nong and Teng: Protecting modern Thai Cinema
First Flight: Peasant to Pilot
Violence of Modernity
Overture: Resisting Mechanization of Society
Dang Bireley: Urban alienation, modern nihilism
Subaltern Primordialism
Siam Renaissance: Re-defending history
Ong Bak and Tom Yum Goong: Defending Heritage
Conclusion
•Retaking the past
•Framing of subaltern consciousness and the fracturing of history
•Postmodern reinvention of prosthetization of Modernity and Memory.
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