Slum Imaginaries and Spatial Justice in Philippine Cinema

by Katrina Macapagal

Book Overview

Outlining the rise of Philippine slums alongside the historical development of Philippine urban cinema, Slum Imaginaries and Spatial Justice in Philippine Cinema makes a novel contribution to the cinema-city nexus through its interdisciplinary framework of film studies and human geography. It formulates the theory of the 'slum chronotope' as a theoretical tool to analyse narrative and genre formation in films that dialogue with Manila's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147445190X
• ISBN13: 9781474451901
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"