In City of Screens Jasmine Nadua Trice examines the politics of cinema circulation in early-2000s Manila. She traces Manila's cinema landscape by focusing on the primary locations of film exhibition and distribution: the pirated DVD district, mall multiplexes, art-house cinemas, the university film institute, and state-sponsored cinematheques. In the wake of digital media piracy and the decline of the local commercial film industry, the rising independent cinema movement has been a site of contestation between filmmakers and the state, each constructing different notions of a prospective, national public film audience. Discourses around audiences become more salient given that films by independent Philippine filmmakers are seldom screened to domestic audiences, despite their international success. City of Screens provides a deeper understanding of the debates about the competing roles of the film industry, the public, and the state in national culture in the Philippines and beyond.
Author(s): Jasmine Nadua Trice
Publisher: Duke University Press
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 328
City: Durham
Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
One. Revanchist Cinemas and Bad Audiences, Multiplex Fiestas and Ideal Publics
Two. The Quiapo Cinematheque and Urban-Cinematic Authenticity
Three. Alternative Exhibition and the Rhythms of the City
Four. “Not for Public Exhibition”: Cinema Regulation, Alternative Cinema, and a Rational Body Politic
Five. “Hollywood Is Not Us”: National Circulation and the Speculative State
Epilogue
Notes
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