In the early, high and late colonial periods, i.e., beginning in the early 17th century, most writings on the Southeast Asian performing arts were by foreign scholars, were court-centric, and aimed at objective accounts of syntax, theory and instruments. In the post-colonial, post-Vietnam war...

A music festival serves as a dynamic activity in tourism as it draws a large number of visitors to festival venues, creating greater tourism related businesses. According to Lea (2006) tourist studies have predominantly considered music festivals in terms of motivations of attendees or revenue...

As a natural phenomenon related Naga ideology and culture in Nong Khai, Vientiane, and Bolikhamxai provinces, the Naga fireball has become one of main touristic festivals in Thailand. This study aims to find the history, current status of cultural tourism promotion and to create innovations to...

The 2018 Thai soap opera Buppaesanniwas was a genre-breaking historical-fantasy drama and a surprise hit among Thai audiences that resulted in a dramatic rise of domestic tourists to the Ayutthaya World Heritage Site. The television series was lauded as a celebration of Thai culture, and fans often ...

Hundreds of low-budget Hmong language films - comedies, action films, horror films, historical fiction movies, documentaries and others - have been produced for Hmong American audiences since the 1990s. Most of them have been made by 1.5-generation Hmong American men in Thailand, in collaboration...

This paper aims to examine modes of representation in transnational films, which in their production, distribution and exhibition relate to two or more countries in South East Asia, particularly Thailand, Laos, Myanmar and Cambodia. The paper uses the concept of transnational cinema to explain how...

This article investigated the codestruction of cultural significance through the cocreation and evolution of a hallmark cultural event, using the Songkran Festival, Thailand, as a case study. The Songkran Festival began within an agricultural society rooted in Buddhist cultural inheritance....

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...