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Love of Siam: Semiotic, Myth and Queer in Thai Society
Research Paper • January 25th, 2017

Currently, there are a great deal of movies, series and music videos that expressively show homosexual contents. However, there are not so many studies in semiotic terms with the meaning of the movies with homosexual content or not so many performers who play a role in such media. Objectives of this research are to study the content and message of mov- ies with homosexual matters through the Movie “Love of Siam” which consists of creative theoretical concepts, semiology and mythology. Furthermore, the concepts about Queer mat- ter are the framework of study by analyzing the content, semiotic terms in movie and in-depth interview to study and accumulate the information. The result was found that the semiotic contents inserted by the director in such movie reflected love in various dimensions available in Thai society including self-love, family love, friendship or even love of homosexual people. The perspectives and contents through semiotic terms and mythological interpretation made “L