'Runaway' foreign film productions from a global South perspective: film workers' memories and site-specific traces from Thailand. Issue 3 (2nd September 2022)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- 'Runaway' foreign film productions from a global South perspective: film workers' memories and site-specific traces from Thailand. Issue 3 (2nd September 2022)
- Main Title:
- 'Runaway' foreign film productions from a global South perspective: film workers' memories and site-specific traces from Thailand
- Authors:
- Promkhuntong, Wikanda
- Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: This article explores the subject known in the Anglophone context as 'runaway' film productions through examining records by peripheral film workers and the legacy associated with a specific film location in Thailand. Considering the post-Cold War period when 'foreign' filmmaking had just taken off and the more recent (post)-COVID-19 labour movement within the country, the article proposes a revisit to film production history via a consideration of on-the-fringe paratexts, sporadically circulated in the public domain, as a way to explore discourses associated with this kind of transnational film productions. The article draws on two key written records associated with the making of The Killing Fields (1984) namely a set diary by the late Sompol Sungkawess, a writer/translator who worked as a local assistant director for the film; and a published monologue by the late Spalding Gray, a playwright/performer who took a minor role in the movie. By conducting a 'palimpsestuous reading' of these accounts along with various site-specific traces, the article explores past and present conditions and practices with the aim to project alternative imaginaries of transnational screen service industry from a global South standpoint.
- Is Part Of:
- Transnational screens. Volume 13:Issue 3(2022)
- Journal:
- Transnational screens
- Issue:
- Volume 13:Issue 3(2022)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 13, Issue 3 (2022)
- Year:
- 2022
- Volume:
- 13
- Issue:
- 3
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2022-0013-0003-0000
- Page Start:
- 218
- Page End:
- 233
- Publication Date:
- 2022-09-02
- Subjects:
- Runaway production -- film production history -- global South -- Thailand -- post-Cold war -- palimpsestuous reading
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Motion pictures and globalization
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791.4 - Journal URLs:
- https://tandfonline.com/toc/rtrc21/current ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/25785273.2022.2144929 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 2578-5273
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