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This article focuses on the representation of main and supporting characters in two Thai popular ... more This article focuses on the representation of main and supporting characters in two Thai popular entertainment media. It analyses the representation of modern women in the most popular movie and television drama in 2009: the movie " Bangkok Traffic (Love) Story " (รถไฟฟ ามาหานะ เธอ) and the television drama " Love Recipe " (สู ตรเสน ห า). In these two media, the main female characters are 30 year-old single women who fell in love and initiate a relationship with a warm, caring man. Through textual analysis and interviews with female viewers, I argue that the representation of modern women in these Thai popular media convey gendered forms of modernity experienced by Thai women nowadays. Although women are represented as free and independent, patriarchal social norms continue to influence self-identification, sexual behavior and sexual relationship for some women. Nevertheless, the representation of modern women opens up space for resistance where the traditional notion of ideal of woman is challenged. Female viewers are able to negotiate, understand and choose to identify with meanings of modern women represented in the entertainment media according to their diverse experiences.
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