Fields of Vision: Critical Applications in Recent Philippine Cinema - Softcover

David, Joel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9715501745 ISBN 13: 9789715501743

Publisher: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1995

Synopsis

Fields of Vision: Critical Applications in Recent Philippine Cinema marks a departure from previous book-length approaches to Philippine film criticism in its scholarly application of modernist principles. Such issues as auteurism, structuralism, and spectatorship are pursued with the view of testing their usefulness for Philippine cinema, instead of dismissing them in the wake of more recent methodologies.

The longer critical essays in the anthology tend to encompass Philippine film history, while the reviews concentrate on recent and still-available titles. Asserting that film has long been serving the function of a unifying national language, Fields of Vision is marked by its author's appreciation for the popular, concern for issues of quality, and acknowledgment of the far-reaching and continuing impact of film on the Philippine way of life.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Winner of the first National Book Award for Film Criticism from the Manila Critics Circle.

About the Author

Joel David is finishing his doctorate in cinema studies at New York University. He has taught courses in film at the University of the Philippines and has been an active reviewer of Philippine movies in various periodicals. He is the author of The National Pastime: Contemporary Philippine Cinema (1980).

Edition details

• Publisher: Ateneo de Manila University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 9715501745
• ISBN 13: 9789715501743
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English