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1 online resource (214 p.) |
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Front Cover -- Half Title -- frontispeices -- Sine ni Lav Diaz: A Long Take on the Filipino Auteur -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Foreword: Lav Diaz, Artist -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Lav Diaz: Cinema beyond Time -- Part 1 Lav Diaz Through Cinematic Histories -- 1 After Brocka: Situating Lav Diaz in Philippine Cinema -- Note -- References -- 2 Homeward Hill: Messianic Redemption in Diaz and Dostoyevsky -- A national cinema -- Raskolnikov from far-off -- Radical freedom -- Realism and allegory -- Messianism and redemption -- Beauty of the soul -- Notes |
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4 Freedom Is a Long Shot: A Chronicle of Lav Diaz's Artistic Struggle -- Introduction -- Five centuries under the influence -- The digital (r)evolution -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part 2 From Death to the Gods: The Resurrection of the National? -- 5 Never, Always and Already Saved: A Soteriological Reading of Norte and Florentina Hubaldo, CTE -- Norte, the End of History -- Florentina Hubaldo, CTE -- Conclusion -- References -- 6 The Idyllic Chronotope and Spatial Justice in Lav Diaz's Melancholia -- The idyllic chronotope in Diaz's epic melodrama |
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Locating spatial justice in Melancholia -- Thresholds and landscapes -- Spectral embodiments, and walking as ritual of mourning -- References -- Part 3 No Cinema, No Art Either -- 7 How Do You Solve a Problem Like Lav Diaz? Debating Norte, the End of History -- Materialism and humanism in Norte, the End of History -- Are we permitted to evaluate Diaz? -- Critique and counter-critique -- References -- 8 Evolution of a Filipino Family and/as Non-Cinema -- Philippine revolution -- Philippine evolution -- Style and self-consciousness |
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9 Jesus, Magdalene and the Filipino Judas: Lav Diaz and His 'Artless Epics' -- Prologue -- Proposition -- Film criticism -- The figures, the cinematic, the performative -- The Grand Inquisitor -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- 10 Distributing the Cinema of Lav Diaz -- Background -- The (slow) cinema of Lav Diaz -- Marketing and distribution strategies, and experiencing the cinema of Lav Diaz -- 1. Eventization -- 2. Endurance viewing -- 3. The distributor's cut -- Conclusion -- References -- Part 4 Interview with Lav Diaz -- 11 A Lav Affair with Cinema -- Note -- Part 5 Tribute |
| Summary |
The first book-length study of the Filipino auteur Lav Diaz, this edited volume offers a nuanced overview of the filmmaker, his corpus, career and traditions from various perspectives for film enthusiasts, researchers and general readers alike. 17 b/w illus |
| Bibliography |
References -- 3 Long Walk to Life:: The Films of Lav Diaz -- May Adadol Ingawanij examines the dialectic between idealist projections of the postcolonial nation and its present aberrations in Lav Diaz's epic tales of endurance. -- Physical Realism -- Cartography of a Nation -- From What Is Before turns the experience of military terrorisation in Mindanao into an emblem of the neglect of the people by the nation-state apparatus. -- Stories of Mothers -- Acts of physical exertion - their duration, spatiality and intensity - become the means by which a film maps a territory and defines a people |
| Notes |
12 Indictment and Empowerment of the Individual:: The Modern Cinema of Lav Diaz |
| Subject |
Diaz, Lav, 1958-
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| SUBJECT |
Diaz, Lav, 1958- fast |
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Motion pictures -- Philippines -- History
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Individual film directors, film-makers.
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Film: styles & genres.
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Film production: technical & background skills.
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ART / Film & Video
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Motion pictures
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Philippines
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Patra, Parichay, 1985-
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Lim, Michael Kho.
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| ISBN |
1789384265 |
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9781789384260 |
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9781789384253 |
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1789384257 |
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