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Contestable nation-space : cinema, cultural politics, and transnationalism in the Marcos-Brocka Philippines by Rolando B. Tolentino is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Contestable nation-space : cinema, cultural politics, and transnationalism in the Marcos-Brocka Philippines about?

Using the body of works of Filipino filmmaker Lino Brocka, the book examines the relations between cinema, cultural politics, and transnationalism in the Philippines. It analyzes issues of national and Third World cinemas, as problematized in Philippine cinema. Using the tropes of the city, family, body, and sexuality, the book explores the junctures in which the nation is contested. The focus of the study is on Marcos’s nation building, and how his efforts to modernize the nation continue to reverberate in subsequent national administrations. The study is important because Brocka’s filmic engagement and critique of the Marcos politics provide the condition of possibility that allows for the dictatorship to cohere and fragment, and for 1970s and 1980s Philippine cinema to be an important receptacle and symptom of negotiations with the dictatorship, the latter allowing for the foregrounding of subversions to the state and its order. A cultural analysis of the contestation for the imagery of nation, the “nation-space,” foregrounds an impasse to the contemporary cultural turn, where culture can be integral toward the assertion of freedom in the worsening weight of intensifying neolibe

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Author

Rolando B. Tolentino

Publisher

The University of the Philippines Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9789715427357

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Political Science, History

Rating

4.5 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13