The Megacity of Bangkok Rescaled through Queerness

IF 0.5 2区艺术学 0 FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION

JCMS-Journal of Cinema and Media Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI:10.1353/cj.2023.0032

C. Zhang

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Abstract

On March 15, 2021, the organizers of Thailand Festival, an annual event sponsored by the Tourism Authority of Thailand, announced that they would collaborate with the Royal Thai Consulate-General in Osaka, Japan, to bring the grand celebration online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Featuring Thai actors Singto (Prachaya Ruangroj) and Krist (Perawat Sangpotirat), this event was designed to introduce an array of tourist spots to Japanese people through a staged “dating” trip of these two young men across Bangkok, who have risen to international stardom through their performance in the Boys’ Love (BL) drama SOTUS: The Series (GMM One, 2016–2017).1 Since the 2014 debut of the TV show Love Sick: The Series (Channel 9, 2014–2015), Thailand has emerged as a prominent player in the global BL market, and its influence has now circled back to Japan, where BL originated.2 Indeed, Thai BL has built a solid fan base by integrating the hyperromanticized queerness popularized by Japanese BL and the androgynous masculinity characterizing K-pop culture into its unique sociocultural milieu. Thailand’s contextual specificity as a rainbow mecca has attracted myriad

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通过酷儿身份重新定义曼谷大都市

2021年3月15日，由泰国旅游局主办的年度活动“泰国节”的组织者宣布，由于新冠肺炎大流行，他们将与泰国驻日本大阪总领事馆合作，将盛大的庆祝活动上线。此次活动由泰国演员Singto (Prachaya Ruangroj)和Krist (Perawat Sangpotirat)出演，旨在通过这两位年轻人在曼谷的“约会”之旅，向日本人介绍一系列旅游景点。这两位年轻人因在《男孩之恋》(BL)电视剧《SOTUS: the Series》(GMM One, 2016-2017)中的表演而成为国际明星自2014年电视节目《Love Sick: the Series》(第九频道，2014 - 2015)首播以来，泰国已经成为全球BL市场的重要参与者，其影响力现在已经回到了BL的发源地日本事实上，泰国BL在其独特的社会文化环境中融合了日本BL所流行的超级浪漫化的酷儿和K-pop文化特征的雌雄同体的男子气概，建立了坚实的粉丝基础。泰国作为彩虹圣地的特殊背景吸引了无数人

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