Laughing at oblivion: parody and the critique of historical amnesia in Chulayarnnon Siriphol’s ANG48 and Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s a Useful Ghost
This special research examines how two recent works of Thai cinema and media art, Chulayarnnon Siriphol's ANG48 (2022) and Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke's A Useful Ghost (2025), appropriate hegemonic, widely-circulated popular cultural narratives as parody to deliver politically inconvenient content. Drawing on the notion...