Filipino Films
Definition/Scope Note:
Long before the coming of cinema in the Philippines, theater originated in the culture of the country’s early societies. Their theatron was on the ground within the community. The ritual practitioners in their dance-dramas used imitative dances to propitiate the supernatural powers that were believed to control forces to regulate the seasons and elements; to ensure the earth’s fertility; and to grant the tribe success in hunting and warfare.
Related Terms:
- Cinematography
- Film maker
- Cinema
- Screenplay
- Genre
Website/Online Sources:
- http://www.aenet.org/family/filmhistory.htm
- https://ncca.gov.ph/about-ncca-3/subcommissions/subcommission-on-the-arts-sca/cinema/history-of-philippine-cinema/
- https://guides.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/c.php?g=105238&p=687094
- https://www.manilatimes.net/2020/02/16/opinion/editorial/filipino-filmmakers-need-to-elevate-their-game/686350/
- http://sdfilipinocinema.org/philippine-cinema-history/
Journal Articles:
- Iterations of the impossible: questions of digital revolution in the Philippines/ Jonathan Beller
- The Cinematographic Unconscious of Slum Voyeurism/ Elmo Gonzaga
- Mixed Race Matters: What Emma Stone and Bruno Mars Can Tell Us about the Future of Asian American Media/ Leilani Nishime
- Mediating and Consuming Memories of Violence/ Syed Muhd
- Kidlat Tahimik: Cinema of the Naive Subaltern in the Shadow of Global Capitalism/ E. San Juan Jr.
Odilo:
- Films in Psychiatry, Psychology, and Mental Health/ Marie E. Coleman
- Philippines Tours: From Manila to Albay/ Juan Alvarez Guerra
- Peace on Warriors On the Trail with Filipino Soldiers/ Criselda Yabes
- Basagan ng Trip Complaints about Filipino Culture and Politics/ Lisandro Claudio
- Panitikang Pambata sa Philippine Mga Gunita, tala, Puna’t Pansin sa Kasaysayan/ Virgilio S. Almario
Proquest:
- The End of National Cinema: Filipino Film at the turn of Century/
- Jose Nepumuceno and the creation of Filipino national consciousness/ Nadi
- Filipinos are the Dandies of the Foreign Colonies”: Race, Labor Struggles, and the Transpacific Routes of Hollywood and Philippine Films, 1924-1948/ Denise Khor
- Badjao: Cinematic Representations in Difference in the Philippine/ Aileen Toohey
- Cinemalaya 2015: A Decade of Philippine Independent Cinema/ Adam Szymanski