City of Screens: Imagining Audiences in Manila's Alternative Film Culture

Jasmine Nadua Trice

Published by Duke University Press 2021

City of Screens

Imagining Audiences in Manila's Alternative Film Culture

Jasmine Nadua Trice

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478021254

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About this book

Jasmine Nadua Trice examines the politics of cinema circulation in early-2000s Manila, showing how the rising independent Philippine cinema movement has been a site of contestation between filmmakers and the state, each constructing different notions of a prospective, national public film audience.

Author / Editor information

Jasmine Nadua Trice is Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Reviews

“From the pirate video stalls of the old city center to the shopping mall multiplexes of Manila, Jasmine Nadua Trice examines the fragmented and multifaceted assemblage of alternative Philippine cinema. Her passionate attention to detail and wide-ranging engagement with critical theory provide a compelling model for the study of cinema cultures in the global South.”

-- Michael Curtin, Distinguished Professor of Film and Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

“Jasmine Nadua Trice persuasively argues that film circulation both envisions and occasionally actualizes the dream of a national film audience for counterdominant cinema in the Philippines. She confronts head-on one of the thorniest problems of politically or aesthetically progressive Philippine film: filmmakers’ attempts to reach the alienated domestic moviegoer. Her fresh, syncretic approach and elegant thinking make City of Screens a groundbreaking, must-read book not only for readers not only interested in Philippine cinema but also for those attuned to the dynamics of distribution, exhibition, and circulation beyond Hollywood. Representing a wholly original and highly generative departure from previous scholarship, City of Screens is a major intervention.”

-- Bliss Cua Lim, author of Translating Time: Cinema, the Fantastic, and Temporal Critique

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
INTRODUCTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
ONE. Revanchist Cinemas and Bad Audiences, Multiplex Fiestas and Ideal Publics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
TWO. The Quiapo Cinematheque and Urban-Cinematic Authenticity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
THREE. Alternative Exhibition and the Rhythms of the City Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
FOUR. “Not for Public Exhibition”: Cinema Regulation, Alternative Cinema, and a Rational Body Politic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
FIVE. “Hollywood Is Not Us”: National Circulation and the Speculative State Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
EPILOGUE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 320

eBook

Published: February 8, 2021
ISBN: 9781478021254