Geopolitics of the visible : essays on Philippine film cultures / edited by Rolando B. Tolentino. (Text)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-368) and indexes.

Philippine film history as postcolonial discourse / Joel David -- Orapronobis against Philippine totalitarianism (2000) / Jonathan L. Beller -- The Filipino presence in Hollywood's Bataan films / Jean Vengua Gier -- The Noranian imaginary / Neferti X.M. Tadiar -- The dissemination of Nora Aunor / Patrick D. Flores -- Nardong Putik in the genealogy of Tagalog folk heroes / Francis A. Gealogo -- The Filipina OCW in extremis / Alice G. Guillermo -- Historico-geographical imaginations in Ishmael Bernal's Nunal sa tubig / Eulalio R. Guieb III -- True fictions, women's narratives, and historical trauma / Bliss Cua Lim -- Pax Americana and the Pacific theater / Sharon Delmendo -- RAM and the Filipino action film / Alfred W. McCoy -- The criminal state and the Chinese in post-1986 Philippines / Caroline S. Hau -- "Art naïf" and the admixture of worlds / Fredric Jameson -- Cinema of the "naïve" subaltern in search of an audience / E. San Juan, Jr. -- Aliwan paradise and the work of satire in the age of geopolitical entertainment / Robert Silberman -- Goodbye America (The bride is walking ...) / Camilla Benolirao Griggers.