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PUBLICATIONS AND RESOURCES

RESEARCH OUTPUT

Promkhuntong, W. (forthcoming) Homing, mobilities, and memories around Pak Chong, Thailand’s Bruce Lee film
locations. Jame Simon and Meenaatchi Saverimuttu (eds.) Asia-Pacific Fandom, Screen Media and Home: Belongings, Attachments, Mobilities.

Promkhuntong, W. (2022) '‘Runaway’ Foreign Film Productions from a Global South Perspective: Film Workers’
Memories and Site-Specific Traces from Thailand’, Transnational Screens. 13(03), 218-
233. https://doi.org/10.1080/25785273.2022.2144929

Promkhuntong, W. (2021) ‘Fan pilgrimage and Thai genre films: play, space and the search for vernacular cultural sites'. Culture, Theory and Critique. 62:3, 249-265.

Available at:  https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/S7D7AZCTEEKDRTEDVPWW/full?target=10.1080/14735784.2021.1991823

Promkhuntong, W. (2019) 'Pilgrimage to a Memory Hole: Towards an Affective Study of Fan Tourism in Asia via Angkor Wat and Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love.' Plaridel: A Philippine Journal of Communication, Media, and Society, 16:2. 

Available at: http://www.plarideljournal.org/article/pilgrimage-to-a-memory-hole-towards-an-affective-study-of-fan-tourism-in-asia-via-angkor-wat-and-wong-kar-wais-in-the-mood-for-love/

Promkhuntong, W. (2016) ‘In Search of the Memory Hole: Cinephile/Fan Tourism at Angkor Wat’, 9th Biennial Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference, Nottingham University, Malaysia.

Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Riw36ldgqa4&t=1645s

RECOMMENDED READING

  • Jones, B. (2024). Screen tourism. Regional development, fan labour and sustainability. The Screen Industries Growth Network. University of York. https://screen-network.org.uk/publication/screen-tourism-regional-development-fan-labour-and-sustainability/

  • Jones, B. (2025). "The power of that fan base is really strong, and it's something we are encourging tourism businesses to see": The economic, individual, and civic values of fan-created screen tourism content. The Velvet Light Trap, 95, 39-50.

  • Reijnders, Stijn. (2011) Places of the Imagination: Media, Tourism, Culture. Surrey and Burlington: Ashgate.

  • Walz, Steffen P. (2010) Toward a Ludic Architecture: The Space of Play and Games. ETC Press: Pittsburg, PA.

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