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โครงการรวบรวมและจัดทําวารสารอิเล็กทรอนิกส์ มหาวิทยาลัยเกษตรศาสตร์

วารสารมนุษยศาสตร์ ปีที่ 22 ฉบับที่ 2 (กรกฎาคม-ธันวาคม 2558) 231

In examining transnational films, this research uses a number of
guidelines from Deborah Shaw and Armida De La Garza (Shaw & De La
Garza, 2010: 5-6). Shaw and Garza provide thorough principle to study films
through the lens of transnational cinema. The topics from the guideline that are

relevant to analyze the selected films are:
- Modes of production, distribution and exhibition
- Migration, journey and other forms of border-crossing

- Exilic and Diasporic filmmaking
- Film and Language
- Question of authorship and stardom
- Cultural Exchange

- Cultural and political policy

Regarding films’ contexts, this study uses the model constructed by
Pam Cook and Will Higbee and Song Hwee Lim (Higbee & Hwee, 2010: 12) to
study the context of the selected film as follows:
- Nostalgia and Utopianism

- Recognizing the dynamic and fluid relationship between center
and border
- Desire for a space of creative possibility outside the mainstream
that will destabilize the field of cultural production and displace the

hegemony of the center

Next, the article looks in to Sabaidee Luang Prabang, the first private
funded Laos film in 33 years.

Sabaidee Luang Prabang
Sabaidee Luang Prabang is a co-production of Lao and Thai companies.

The film was warmly welcomed by Thai and Lao audiences. It was also