Slum Imaginaries and Spatial Justice in Philippine Cinema - Hardcover

Macapagal, Katrina

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1474451896 ISBN 13: 9781474451895

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2021

Synopsis

Outlining the rise of Philippine slums alongside the historical development of Philippine urban cinema, Slum Imaginaries and Spatial Justice in Philippine Cinema makes a novel contribution to the cinema-city nexus through its interdisciplinary framework of film studies and human geography. It formulates the theory of the ‘slum chronotope’ as a theoretical tool to analyse narrative and genre formation in films that dialogue with Manila’s slum imaginaries, and makes the case for Philippine urban cinema – and Philippine urban history – as a significant vantage point from which to understand imaginaries of spatial justice.
With case studies that take off from The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros (2005) to Respeto (2017), this book is a powerful contribution to transnational cinema studies.

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About the Author

Katrina Macapagal obtained her PhD in Film and Media studies from Queen Margaret University, and her MA in Cultural and Critical Studies from the University of Westminster.

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Outlining the rise of Philippine slums alongside the historical development of Philippine urban cinema, Slum Imaginaries and Spatial Justice in Philippine Cinema makes a novel contribution to the cinema-city nexus through its interdisciplinary framework of film studies and human geography. It formulates the theory of the ‘slum chronotope’ as a theoretical tool to analyse narrative and genre formation in films that dialogue with Manila’s slum imaginaries, and makes the case for Philippine urban cinema – and Philippine urban history – as a significant vantage point from which to understand imaginaries of spatial justice.With case studies that take off from The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros (2005) to Respeto (2017), this book is a powerful contribution to transnational cinema studies.Katrina Macapagal obtained her PhD in Film and Media studies from Queen Margaret University, and her MA in Cultural and Critical Studies from the University of Westminster.

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Outlining the rise of Philippine slums alongside the historical development of Philippine urban cinema, Slum Imaginaries and Spatial Justice in Philippine Cinema makes a novel contribution to the cinema-city nexus through its interdisciplinary framework of film studies and human geography. It formulates the theory of the slum chronotope as a theoretical tool to analyse narrative and genre formation in films that dialogue with Manila s slum imaginaries, and makes the case for Philippine urban cinema and Philippine urban history as a significant vantage point from which to understand imaginaries of spatial justice. With case studies that take off from The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros (2005) to Respeto (2017), this book is a powerful contribution to transnational cinema studies.Katrina Macapagal earned her PhD in Film and Media studies from Queen Margaret University, and her MA in Cultural and Critical Studies from the University of Westminster.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474451896
• ISBN 13: 9781474451895
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216