{"product_id":"boys-love-media-in-thailand-9781350330689","title":"Boys Love Media in Thailand","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the past several years, the Thai popular culture landscape has radically transformed due to the emergence of Boys Love (BL) soap operas which celebrate the love between handsome young men. \u003ci\u003eBoys Love Media in Thailand: Celebrity, Fans, and Transnational Asian Queer Popular Culture \u003c\/i\u003eis the first book length study of this increasingly significant transnational pop culture phenomenon. Drawing upon six years of ethnographic research, the book reveals BL's impacts on depictions of same-sex desire in Thai media culture and the resultant mainstreaming of queer romance through new forms of celebrity and participatory fandom. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author explores how the rise of BL has transformed contemporary Thai consumer culture, leading to heterosexual female fans of male celebrities who perform homoeroticism becoming the main audience to whom Thai pop culture is geared. Through the case study of BL, this book thus also investigates how Thai media is responding to broader regional trends\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187297608023,"sku":"9781350330689","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/boys-love-media-in-thailand-9781350330689","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}