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Capino, Jose B.

 
9780816669721: Dream Factories of a Former Colony: American Fantasies, Philippine Cinema
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ISBN 10: 0816669724 ISBN 13: 9780816669721
Casa editrice: Univ of Minnesota Pr, 2010

Sinossi

Philippine cinema, the dream factory of the former U.S. colony, teems with American figures and plots. Local movies feature GIs seeking Filipina brides, cold war spies hunting down native warlords, and American-born Filipinos wandering in the parental homeland. The American landscape furnishes the settings for the triumphs and tragedies of Filipino nurses, GI babies, and migrant workers.

By tracking American fantasies in Philippine movies from the postindependence period to the present, José B. Capino offers an innovative account of cinema's cultural work in decolonization and globalization. Capino examines how a third world nation's daydreams both articulate empire and mobilize against it, provide imaginary maps and fables of identity for its migrant workers and diasporan subjects, pose challenges to the alibis of patriarchy and nationalism, and open up paths for participating in the cultures of globality.

Through close readings of more than twenty Philippine movies, Capino demonstrates the postcolonial imagination's vital role in generating pragmatic and utopian visions of living with empire. Illuminating an important but understudied cinema, he creates a model for understanding the U.S. image in the third world.

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Informazioni sugli autori

José B. Capino is assistant professor of English and media and cinema studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.


JosT B. Capino is assistant professor of English and media and cinema studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Editore
Univ of Minnesota Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2010
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0816669724
ISBN 13 
9780816669721
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
290
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
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