Among the Sensuous: Listening to Film,Listening to the Philippines |
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| Authors: | Harrod Suarez |
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| Institution: | 1. hsuarez@mail.sdsu.edu |
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| Abstract: | In this paper, I argue that listening to a film is as significant as watching it; in spite of what seems like a formalist argument, I examine in what ways such an approach intervenes in the production of knowledge around Philippine history and Filipina/o bodies. In Kidlat Tahimik's film, Mababangong Bangungot, an overprivileging of the visual aids and abets the film's masculinist nationalism, despite the best efforts of critics to find a “third term.” That third term just might come from listening to the film, which delivers its own kind of postcolonial and feminist critique, one which impacts how we think about contemporary communication and cultural studies. |
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| Keywords: | Film Nationalism Philippines Tahimik Masculinity |
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