Martial Law Melodrama

Martial Law Melodrama
Title Martial Law Melodrama PDF eBook
Author José B. Capino
Publisher University of California Press
Pages 325
Release 2020-01-07
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0520314638

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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, Martial Law Melodrama does more than reveal the breadth of his political vision. It also offers a timely lesson about popular cinema’s vital role in the struggle for democracy.

Adapted for the Screen

Adapted for the Screen
Title Adapted for the Screen PDF eBook
Author Hsiu-Chuang Deppman
Publisher University of Hawaii Press
Pages 258
Release 2010-04-30
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0824833732

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Hsiu-Chang Deppman puts landmark contemporary Chinese films in the context of their literary origins & explores how the best Chinese directors adapt fictional narratives & styles for film.

The Proximity of Other Skins

The Proximity of Other Skins
Title The Proximity of Other Skins PDF eBook
Author Celine Parreñas Shimizu
Publisher
Pages 265
Release 2020
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0190865857

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Transnational films that represent intimacy and inequality produce new experiences that result in the displacement of the universal spectator, in a redefinition of the power of cinema for today's global audiences. The Proximity of Other Skins examines transnational films that achieve global prominence in presenting a different cinematic language of love and sex. Author Celine Parre�as Shimizu traverses independent films by Gina Kim and Ramona Diaz to the global cinema of Laurent Cantet, Park Chan-wook and Cannes award-winning director Brilliante Mendoza and their representations of transnational intimacies. In doing so, she addresses unexpected encounters in the global movement of people and goods within their geopolitical, historical, and cultural contexts. In these celebrated films that move across continents, she finds ways to expand our definition of intimacy, including explicit sex and relations that go beyond sex, enabling us the opportunity to theorize how people now live together in many spheres of contemporary life. Readers can then better understand how intimacy can affirm and express love, but also alienate and oppress, revealing the loneliness, pain, and suffering within transnational, national, and personal relations of power and hierarchy. In studying representations of intimacy, the book calls to expand our vocabulary of moving images and its role in redefining care work and affective relations between people across difference and inequality. The book addresses cinematic intimacies between husbands/wives/lovers, understanding between sex workers and clients, close familiarity between rich and poor, and new affinities between citizen and refugee and laborer and capitalist.

Building the Wall

Building the Wall
Title Building the Wall PDF eBook
Author Robert Schenkkan
Publisher Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Pages 49
Release 2017-09-29
Genre Drama
ISBN 0822237148

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On January 20, 2017, Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. Over the next sixteen months, events would unravel that test every American’s strength of character: executive actions, an immigration round-up of unprecedented scale, and a declaration of martial law. Rick finds himself caught up as the frontman of the new administration’s edicts and loses his humanity. In a play that recalls George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Nazi regime, BUILDING THE WALL is a terrifying and gripping exploration of what happens if we let fear win.

Martial Law Melodrama

Martial Law Melodrama
Title Martial Law Melodrama PDF eBook
Author José B. Capino
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2023
Genre Motion pictures
ISBN 9786214482948

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Hong Kong Cinema

Hong Kong Cinema
Title Hong Kong Cinema PDF eBook
Author Stephen Teo
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 319
Release 2019-07-25
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 1838716262

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This is the first full-length English-language study of one of the world's most exciting and innovative cinemas. Covering a period from 1909 to 'the end of Hong Kong cinema' in the present day, this book features information about the films, the studios, the personalities and the contexts that have shaped a cinema famous for its energy and style. It includes studies of the films of King Hu, Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, as well as those of John Woo and the directors of the various 'New Waves'. Stephen Teo explores this cinema from both Western and Chinese perspectives and encompasses genres ranging from melodrama to martial arts, 'kung fu', fantasy and horror movies, as well as the international art-house successes.

The Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama

The Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama
Title The Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama PDF eBook
Author Carolyn Williams
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 353
Release 2018-10-04
Genre Drama
ISBN 110709593X

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A lively and accessible account of the most popular form of nineteenth-century English theatre, and its continuing influence today.