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Martial law melodrama Lino Brocka's cinema politics

"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�...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Capino, José B. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California University of California Press [2020]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The country and the city : social melodrama and the symptoms of autocratic rule
  • "A thoroughly different kind of mother" : surrogate autocrats, restive youth, and the maternal melodrama
  • The melodramatics of crime : film noir in the twilight of martial law
  • Tales of unrelenting misfortunes : family melodrama and the 1980s economic crisis
  • Men in revolt : two experiments in political cinema
  • A dirty affair : political melodramas of democratization
  • Picturing "a faggot's dilemma" : sexuality, politics, and a commerce in queer movies
  • Coda : three non-endings