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Coping with the Past: History in Thai Contemporary Films Dr LIEW Kai Khiun

Coping with the Past: History in Thai Contemporary Films Dr LIEW Kai Khiun 6 th 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

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Coping with the Past: History in Thai Contemporary Films Dr LIEW Kai Khiun

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  1. 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

  2. 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.

  3. Reading Subversive Subaltern Fantasies withinthe Dominant Text • Engagement with Modernity • Socio-political hierarchies and mobility • Identity and place

  4. Becoming Modern: Appropriating Technology, attaining Equality First Flight: Peasant to Pilot Nong and Teng: Protecting modern Thai Cinema

  5. Violence of Modernity Overture: Resisting Mechanization of Society Dang Bireley: Urban alienation, modern nihilism

  6. Subaltern Primordialism Ong Bak and Tom Yum Goong: Defending Heritage Siam Renaissance: Re-defending history

  7. 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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