Movies from the Philippines

This tagalog movies from the Philippines matter introduces the film student to the national cinema of the Philippines. First, it provides a short overview of the historical development of the Movies from the Philippines and film industry from 1897 to the present, highlighting its foreign influences and local sources, its producers, artists and technicians, and the main problems it has confronted through the last century. Second, the course screens the most typical Filipino movies belonging to the classical Filipino cinema (specifically, the melodrama, the action film, the comedy) as well as selected Philippine films from the New Cinema which are characterized by artistic integrity.

It also exhibits works from the alternative Philippine cinema. Third, the course evaluates the films as art works interpreting issues and themes in Filipino society, such as censorship and morality, art and commerce, film and politics, authoritarianism and artistic freedom, Hispanics and Anglo-Saxons, patriarchy and the stereotyping of filipina and gays, and foreign influence and national identity in cinema. It also examines the Movies from the Philippines as discourses tending to dismantle or strengthen the power structures in the said society.

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