José B. Capino, "Martial Law Melodrama: Lino Brocka’s Cinema Politics"
English | ISBN: 0520314611 | 2020 | 328 pages | EPUB, PDF | 27 MB + 61 MB
English | ISBN: 0520314611 | 2020 | 328 pages | EPUB, PDF | 27 MB + 61 MB
Lino Brocka (1939–1991) was one of Asia and the Global South’s most celebrated filmmakers. A versatile talent, he was at once a bankable director of genre movies, an internationally acclaimed auteur of social films, a pioneer of queer cinema, and an outspoken critic of Ferdinand Marcos’s autocratic regime. José B. Capino examines the figuration of politics in the Filipino director’s movies, illuminating their historical contexts, allegorical tropes, and social critiques. Combining eye-opening archival research with fresh interpretations of over fifteen of Brocka’s major and minor works,
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