Boys love media in Thailand : celebrity, fans, and transnational Asian queer popular culture / Thomas Baudinette.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baudinette, Thomas, author.

Series:

Asian celebrity and fandom studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sexual minorities in popular culture--Thailand.

Sexual minorities in popular culture.

Gay people in popular culture--Thailand.

Gay people in popular culture.

Gay men in mass media.

Sex in popular culture--Thailand.

Sex in popular culture.

Sexual minorities in popular culture--Asia.

Gay people in popular culture--Asia.

Sex in popular culture--Asia.

Sex in popular culture--Economic aspects--Asia.

Asia.

Thailand.

LGBTQ+ people.

Physical Description:

234 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.

Summary:

"Over the past several years, the Thai popular culture landscape has radically transformed due to the emergence of "Boys Love" (BL) soap operas which celebrate the love between handsome young men. Boys Love Media in Thailand: Celebrity, Fans, and Transnational Asian Queer Popular Culture is the first book length study of this increasingly significant transnational pop culture phenomenon. Drawing upon six years of ethnographic research, the book reveals BL's impacts on depictions of same-sex desire in Thai media culture and the resultant mainstreaming of queer romance through new forms of celebrity and participatory fandom. The author explores how the rise of BL has transformed contemporary Thai consumer culture, leading to heterosexual female fans of male celebrities who perform homoeroticism becoming the main audience to whom Thai pop culture is geared. Through the case study of BL, this book thus also investigates how Thai media is responding to broader regional trends across Asia where the economic potentials of female and queer fans are becoming increasingly important. Baudinette ultimately argues that the center of queer cultural production in Asia has shifted from Japan to Thailand, investigating both the growing international fandom of Thailand's BL series as well as the influence of international investment into the development of these media. The book particularly focuses on specific case studies of the fandom for Thai BL celebrity couples in Thailand, China, the Philippines, and Japan to explore how BL series have transformed each of these national contexts' queer consumer cultures"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

A history of boys love media and fandom in Thailand

Adapting Japanese BL: constructing Thai fans, mainstreaming queer romance

The boys love machine: producing queer idol celebrity at GMM

Sharing intimacies: social media, GMM fan events, and BL idol fandom

Thai BL goes global: the queer potentials of Chinese and Philippine fandoms

Japan's Thai BL boom: a new center for transnational Asian queer popular culture

Concluding remarks: whither Thai BL?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Baudinette, Thomas. Boys love media in Thailand.

ISBN:

9781350330641

1350330647

OCLC:

1345215205

Publisher Number:

90101641101