The Production of Thai Films with Political Semiotics in Thailand

Abstract

The research on the production of Thai films political semiotic in Thailand aims to study Thai films and produce creative Thai film screenplays. The study investigates how Thai films employ symbols to convey political messages and in what forms, using semiotics as the primary analytical tool. This research is qualitative in nature and selects Thai films from the period 2015 to 2019, a time of military dictatorship in Thailand when films was significantly influenced by societal trends. A total of six film were analyzed through a screenplay analysis approach. The research findings revealed that it in all six films, the following patterns emerged regarding the use of symbols to convey meaning: (1) Narrative unit analysis: Thai Films predominantly employed a narrative-driven approach to convey meaning; (2) The myth attitude of Thai films: Event-based symbolism was primarily used to convey meaning, with character-based symbolism was secondary. (3) In terms of symbolic distances, Thai films used a three-tiered approach to symbolism, with the primary focus on symbols. All six films utilized symbols to convey meaning related to the same thematic aspects, including social structure, expression, emotion, societal idealism, upper class, and lower class.