Restricted vision

Censorship and cinematic resistance in Thailand

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ID9082156
AuthorsNoah Viernes (0000-0002-3123-7006, corresponding author), Noah Keone Viernes
Year2021
Volume52
Issue4
Pages634-657
Publication date2021-12-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Southeast Asian Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-4634 • E-ISSN: 1474-0680
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022463421000990
OpenAlexW4206360778
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited14

Film censorship screens the nation as a ‘way of seeing’ that is both fundamental to the art of governance and vulnerable to the flexibility of contemporary global images. In Thailand, this historically-conditioned regime arose in the geopolitics of the 1930 Film Act, the Motion Pictures and Video Act of 2008, and a coterminous regulation of visuality as a form of cultural governance. I pursue a close reading of two banned films by Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Nontawat Numbenchapol, respectively, to illustrate the aesthetics of film censorship in light of the development of a national cinema, especially to consider the strategies that film-makers use to negotiate the governance of vision

Aesthetics · Art · Censorship · Corporate governance · Economics · Flexibility (engineering) · Geopolitics · Management · Media studies · Movie theater · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Reading (process) · Resistance (ecology) · Sociology · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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