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Philippine cinema

In Studio Film Philippine, we will analyze Philippine cinema language, from the start of the sound era to the present, focusing on the development of historically significant Philippine film styles and national movements: the Philippine studio film (the screwball comedy, the musical, the maternal melodrama, and the film noir); Neorealist; the  New Wave; the European, Indian and Asian Art film, third world political cinema, feminist cinema. Throughout the Philippine cinema course we will address the following interrelated questions and concerns:
  1. What are the aesthetic, psychological and ideological implications of the addition of sound to the highly developed picture language of the silent Philippine cinema?
  2. What is the source of pleasure and fascination in the cinema and what part does sound play in increasing these star cinema Philippine effects?
  3. What is the appeal of realism in film and how do films construct and deconstruct the illusion of reality?
  4. How and why do conventions of film realism change over time?
  5. What are the aesthetic, psychological and ideological differences between the classical Hollywood film and the "Art Film"?
  6. How do films construct race and gender representations and how do these representations differ in various Philippine  cinemas?
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