Dream factories of a former colony : American fantasies, Philippine cinema

Dream factories of a former colony : American fantasies, Philippine cinema /

Philippine cinema, the dream factory of the former U.S. colony, teems with American figures and plots. Local movies feature GIs seeking Filipina brides, cold war spies hunting down native warlords, and American-born Filipinos wandering in the parental homeland. The American landscape furnishes the s...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Capino, José B.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2010
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Philippines.
Myth in motion pictures.
Imperialism in motion pictures.
Culture in motion pictures.
National characteristics, American, in motion pictures.
Motion pictures and transnationalism.
Motion pictures and globalization.
United States > In motion pictures.
Philippines > Civilization > American influences.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : a tale of two sisters
  • Visions of empire. Terror is a man : exploiting the horrors of empire
  • My brother is not a pig : American benevolence and Philippine sovereignty
  • (Not) searching for my father : GI babies and postcolonial futures
  • Transnational imaginings. The migrant woman's tale : on loving and leaving nations
  • Filipino American dreams : the cultural politics of diasporan films
  • Global ambitions. Naked brown brothers : exhibitionism and festival cinema
  • Philippine cinema's fatal attractions : appropriating Hollywood
  • Coda : a tale of two brothers.

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