Abstract
This chapter explores Asian cinema through the lens of cinephiles and transmedia fans. Highlighting the connections of Wong Kar Wai’s features to fan-made short film, online game and on- and off-screen participatory cultures, Promkhuntong discusses the notions of collective authorship, transmedia storytelling, and network aesthetics. Pushing for the discussion of Asian cinema through the transnational flows and connections of paratexts and agencies within the transmedia ecology, the chapter examines artworks of the Thai filmmaker and transmedia storyteller Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit, who pays tribute to Wong Kar Wai while developing his own transmedia self-reflexive filmmaking. The chapter also discusses the appropriations of Wong’s aesthetics for political activism, connecting film fans in Thailand with the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement, and for consumerist lifestyle culture in Bangkok and Asian metropolitan cities.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Palgrave Handbook of Asian Cinema |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Pages | 427-449 |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781349958221 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781349958214 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2018 |
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