Introduction Key Directors Key Early Productions New Thai Cinema Heritage Films Horror (Nang Phi / Nang Sayong Khwan) Action (Muay Thai) Comedy / Romantic Comedy Queer Cinema Animation Independent Cinema
An essential reference guide to the contemporary Thai cinema industry and its history.
Mary J. Ainslie is Assistant Professor of Film and Media at the University of Nottingham; she is based at the university's Ningbo campus in China. Her research interests include Southeast Asian culture and media, in particular relating to Thailand and Malaysia. She is the editor of a special edition of the Horror Studies journal, as well as the collectionThe Korean Wave in Southeast Asia: Consumption and Cultural Production (2015). She is currently working on a project on the Southeast Asian gothic. Katarzyna Ancuta is a lecturer at the Faculty of Liberal Arts, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL) in Thailand. Her research focuses on the multidisciplinary, contemporary gothic and horror genre, currently with a strong Asian focus. Her recent publications include chapters in A New Companion to the Gothic (2012), Globalgothic (2013), The Cambridge Companion to the Modern Gothic (2014) and Ghost Movies in Southeast Asia and Beyond (2016), as well as two co-edited special journal issues on Thai (2014) and Southeast Asian (2015) horror film.
Thorough and contextualizing … Summing Up: Highly recommended.
Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers.
*K. J. Wetmore Jr., Loyola Marymount University, CHOICE*
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