Geopolitics of the visible : essays on Philippine film cultures /

Geopolitics of the visible : essays on Philippine film cultures / edited by Rolando B. Tolentino. - xxi, 384 pages : illustrations 23 cm.

An anthology of essays about Philippines cinema. Takes off from the post World War II détente foreign policy of the United States to illuminate issues of transparency of power and power relations. Seeks to answer questions like: How has the visible image been constructed such that implicates issues of colonial, imperial, and nationalist representations and discourses? How has geopolitics, the mobilization of a global discourse of capital, liberal democracy and modernity been rendered in the Philippines? Winner, 2002 Gintong Aklat Award, for Art (BIP-ADMUP).

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Motion pictures--Philippines
Motion pictures--Philippines.

PN 1993.5.P6 / .G292 2000