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History and Histories: at Present. Nick Deocampo’s Film: American Influences on Philippine Cinema (2011), together with his previous volume, Cine: Spanish Influences on Early Cinema in the Philippines (2003), are thus far the definitive and most comprehensive history of early cinema in the Philippines. “Early Cinema” here pertains to that ...
Apr 29, 2013 · This book offers a rare study of cinema in the Philippines. The first half of the work presents a history. Chapters cover lost pre-World War II films, the postwar cinema boom, the Philippines' unique relationship with the United States and its manifestation on film, and Filipino cinema's decline.
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- Bryan L. Yeatter
- Bryan L. Yeatter
Jul 14, 2023 · The first half of the work presents the little-known history of Filipino cinema. The second half of the book is the most comprehensive published filmography of Filipino cinema to date"--Provided by publisher. Includes filmography: p. 241-401. Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-411) and index.
Philippine Cinema, 1897-2020 has 100 essays on the many different aspects of the country’s film history: its artistic language, conventions, narratives, textual sources, discourses on women, gender, modernity, and national identity.
- 1 Organisational
- 2 Sociopolitical
- 3 Economic
- 4 Technological
- 5 Rise of (Independent) Film Festivals
Following Deocampo’s account, independent filmmaking in the Philippines started when the first movies were shot in the country. He considered these films independent because they were in the forms of short films, newsreels, military- or war-related films for training, and documentaries produced between the 1920s and 1950s. However, this pertains to...
Philippine independent cinema is also indirectly born out of sociopolitical resistance (Lumbera 2010, p. 95), where film functions as an agent of social change and political reform. Martial law has been crucial in the transformation of the film industry when it was declared in 1972 (Francia 2002, p. 348). It marked a decline in the quality of filmm...
In 1997, the Asian economic crisis greatly affected the local film industry (Lim 2011, pp. 280–82) and showed a declining pattern in movie production both in quantity and quality (del Mundo 2002, pp. 367–68). Production costs also increased and reached between PhP 10 million (Tiongson 2010, p. 16) and PhP 12 million (Garcia 2000, pp. 53–54). This w...
Technology is also a purveyor of independent cinema. In the 1980s, the arrival of the Super-8, 16 mm, and video cameras launched some new filmmakers (Baumgärtel 2012, p. 2; Deocampo 1985, p. 29). In 1999, the advent of digital video (DV) technology marked the dawning of the digital era in Philippine cinema (Hernandez 2014, p. 21). This new technolo...
While the introduction of DV technology has led the industry to discover the medium’s potential and produce more films, the establishment of various independent film festivals provided the much-needed platform that propelled and opened doors for a new generation of filmmakers to rise and showcase their works. One of the earliest festivals that feat...
- Michael Kho Lim, Michael Kho Lim
- 2019
This book offers a rare study of cinema in the Philippines. The first half of the work presents the little-known history of Filipino cinema. Arranged chronologically, chapters cover lost...
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