Film Authorship in Contemporary Transmedia Culture: The Paratextual Lives of Asian Auteurs

The book draws on the notion of paratext and its related term - palimpsest - to bring forth the idea of self-reflexive authorship as a method of examining the mediated past, present, and afterlife of East Asian filmmakers.

Wikanda Promkhuntong is a lecturer in Film and Cultural Studies at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia, Mahidol University. Her research engages with East Asian cinema and different forms of border-crossing. Her work often explores the discourses around and practices of screen industry agents from auteur/stars, cinephiles/fans to above/below-the-line workers and the changing conditions that shaped their lives and works over time. Since being based in Thailand, her works also explore film cultures in relation to fan tourism, different forms of cinematic mobilities, and historical film receptions. She completed her PhD in Film Studies at Aberystwyth University.