Wages of Cinema : Film in Philippine Perspective

Product Description


Recent trends in film discourse are taken up and examined from a national position in
Wages of Cinema: Film in Philippine Perspective. Issues such as deconstruction, historiography, cultural policy, postcolonialism, and psychoanalysis, plus reconsiderations of earlier questions on structure, genre, gender, race, autobiography, and authorship are discussed in the light of how these may best contribute to the interests of Philippine film criticism, production, and viewership.


Wages of Cinema presents a variety of film texts in the course of discussion. These include several Philippine titles such as
Manila by Night and
Maynila: Sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag, American products such as
Nashville,
Dressed to Kill, and
Raising Cain, ethnographic works such as
Cannibal Tours, the celebrated Japanese erotic sample
In the Realm of the Senses, the Canadian queer sex film
Super 8 1/2, and the French Vietnam War entry
Indochine.


Review




"Since he began writing in the 1980s, the critical efforts of Joel David have been among the most consistent as well as the most comprehensive, addressing such diverse and necessary concerns as audience response and the Filipino documentary.



"Not all academics are necessarily equal to the effort. But in David we have someone whose involvement in and love for the medium have created a body of work that in this particular time both Philippine cinema as well as the study of it sorely needs."



―Luis V. Teodoro (from the Introduction)




From the Back Cover


Winner of the University of the Philippines' Centennial Book Award in 2008.


About the Author


Joel David is an Assistant Professor of Film at the University of the Philippines. He is the author of two earlier books on Philippine cinema and is working on his doctoral dissertation at the cinema studies program of New York University.