ผ่านมากว่า 130 ปี นับจาก "Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat" ของ Auguste และ Louise Lumiere เรามีภาพยนตร์ดูกันเยอะแยะมากมาย ดูได้ทุกที่ทุกเวลา จนเราอาจไม่เคยสงสัยว่า จากภาพรถไฟเคลื่อนที่เข้าชานชาลาประมาณ 50 วิ สู่หนังยาวจนต้องแอบแวะไปฉี่ มันผ่านอะไรมาบ้าง จนเดินทางมาถึงจุดนี้
This is a collection of essays produced by one of my lecturers, Thanes Wongyannawa, already seen in Siamrath magazine, edited and published by my friend's publisher. The essays concern about the matters of art, cinema and consumerism. It is not about movie critics directly; as a matter of fact, also not a guidance of consuming movies. It is written to respond a question: do we regard cinema as art? Is cinema an art in itself? If it is not, when and why do we count it as an art? Aj. Thanes traces back to the emergence of the art of cinema and the influence of consumerism. He demonstrates the roles of states and nationalism in the history of cinema while clearly showing an attempt of intellectuals to create their own spaces in this new field for some purposes I am sure you will find them in the text in so far as you read undisturbed by sleepiness and confusion. I think this is a sequel to his previous book on consumerism named 'Consumer Revolution' or in Thai 'ปฏิวัติบริโภค.' However, the former in particular attends to a matter of cinema and written informally and satirically while the latter to consumerism in general in formal academic form.
Available in Thai only. To think of translation is a kind of nightmare. I don't want to be the one who suffer, at least not in this time.