Geopolitics of the visible : essays on Philippine film cultures - Quezon City Ateneo de Manila University Press - xxi, 384 pages : illustrations;

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Anthology of essays about cinema, taking off from the post-World War II detente foreign policy of the United States to illuminate issues of transparency of power and power relations. Seeks to answer questions like : How has the visible image been constructed such that it implicates issues of colonial, imperial, and nationalist representations and discourses? How has geopolitics, the mobilization of a global discourse of capital, liberal democracy and modernity been rendered in the Philippines? [www.ateneopress.org]

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Motion pictures -- Philippines -- History.
Motion pictures -- Philippines.

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