Slum Imaginaries and Spatial Justice in Philippine Cinema

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by Katrina Macapagal

Type: Studies
Subject: Countries > Southeast Asia
Keywords: Philippines, urban
Publishing date: 2023
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
1st publishing: 2021
Language: English

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Physical desc.

Paperback • 240 pages
6 ¼ x 9 inches (16 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-1-4744-5190-1

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Book Presentation:
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.

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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