TY - BOOK AU - Cañete, Reuben Ramas, TI - Masculinity, Media, and their publics in the Philippines: selected essays SN - 9789715427500 AV - BF 692.5 .C116 2014 PY - 2014/// CY - Diliman, Quezon City PB - University of the Philippine Press KW - Masculinity KW - Philippine essays (English) N2 - Masculinity, Media, and their Publics in the Philippines undertakes critical investigations into the forms by which masculinity is imagined, intuited, and instrumentalized in the contemporary postcolonial space of the Philippines. These investigations are primarily foregrounded upon the analysis and reflection of the political economy in Philippine visual culture through which these forms of masculinity are manifested, particularly through mass media practice. Subjects of Dr. Reuben Ramas Canete's essays in the book include Post-EDSA homoerotic cinema, outright pornography, Bench billboard ads, Manny Pacquiao, and the UP Oblation. (Source: http://ovpaa.up.edu.ph/up-press-launches-10-new-titles) ER -