Projecting Films to Spirits
On Shrines as Conjunctural Space and the Ritual Economy of Outdoor Cinema in Bangkok
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12409754 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard L Macdonald (0000-0002-9539-5556), Richard Macdonald (Goldsmiths University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 152-163 |
| Publication date | 2017-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Visual Anthropology Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1058-7187 • E-ISSN: 1548-7458 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/var.12133 |
| OpenAlex | W2756461097 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
This article is concerned with the ritually embedded character of open‐air cinema in Thailand. It draws on ethnographic fieldwork in Isaan and Bangkok and interviews with different actors within the ritual economy of open‐air cinema at shrines and temples. Outlining different ritual actions through which cinema is sponsored, it then focuses on a particular practice: pledging film screenings to spirits and deities at shrines. Looking at a specific site, a Daoist shrine in suburban Bangkok, it foregrounds the implications of a disjuncture between the personal nature of the spiritual transaction and the public character of its fulfillment. It considers these implications through an analysis of the spatial conjuncture formed when a projector casts its light in a particular setting, which is then appropriated by those customarily excluded by the institution of cinema in its commodity form
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Business · Character (mathematics · Commodity · Ethnography · Institution · Movie theater · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropological Studies and Insights · History · Philosophy · South Asian Cinema and Culture · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |