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Nang Nak: Thai bourgeois heritage cinema
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Abstract From the late 1990s to the early 2000s, history has been flooding commercial Thai cinema as never before. These contemporary ‘films that go back in time’ (nang yon yuk) can be distinguished by their ambition to maximise visibility at both domestic and international levels. Their novelty in the Thai context lies in combining the aesthetics of the nostalgia film, the promotional practices of the high concept film, with the insistent claim of attentive historical representation as a mark of quality and seriousness. The article explores Nonzee Nimibutr’s ghost remake Nang Nak (1999) as an exemplary instance of contemporary Thai bourgeois heritage cinema. It argues that the film’s signification of heritage takes the narrative form of self‐exoticisation, or the inscription of generically arcane Old Siamness for the fascinated gaze of the bourgeois Thai spectator. The article considers the tension between the self‐exoticising aesthetics and the yearning for national self‐representation, brought out especially acutely in this heritage film’s international foray on the film festival circuit.
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“Somtow Sucharitkul, a Thai-American music composer, was born in 1952 and educated in England.”
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“Somtow returned to Thailand, quitting his state as an 'expatriate' in order to start his career as a 'neo-Asian neo-Romantic composer' .”
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“Moreover, His monkhood in 2001 is said to have 'consequently enhanced his reflection on his birth country' .”
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“The Thai scholar May Adadol Ingawanij attributes the success of Nang Nak as a national heritage film to the director's authentic recreation of the nineteenth-century atmosphere and his achievement of a high level of auteurism (2007, 181-182; 188).”
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“He is currently the artistic director of the Bangkok Opera.”
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- Authors
- Ingawanij, M. A.
- Corresponding author
- Ingawanij, May Adadol
- Venue
- Inter-Asia Cultural Studies
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2007-06
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 180-193
- ISSN
- 1464-9373 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2120517918
- Cited by
- 35
- References
- 7
- Citations by year
- 2025: 10 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 9 · 2019: 4 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 2
- FWCI
- 16.57
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › Cinema History and Criticism
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › Cinema and Media Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › South Asian Cinema and Culture
- Keywords
- Thai cinema, heritage cinema, historical representation, national self-representation, film festivals
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