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Martial Law Melodrama: Lino Brocka’s Cinema Politics
Martial Law Melodrama: Lino Brocka’s Cinema Politics
Martial Law Melodrama: Lino Brocka’s Cinema Politics
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Lino Brocka (1939–1991) was one of Asia and the Global South’s most celebrated filmmakers. A versatile talent, he was at once a bankable director of genre movies, an internationally acclaimed auteur of social films, a pioneer of queer cinema, and an outspoken critic of Ferdinand Marcos’s autocratic regime. José B. Capino examines the figuration of politics in the Filipino director’s movies, illuminating their historical contexts, allegorical tropes, and social critiques. Combining eye-opening archival research with fresh interpretations of over fifteen of Brocka’s major and minor works, Martial Law Melodrama does more than reveal the breadth of his political vision. It also offers a timely lesson about popular cinema’s vital role in the struggle for democracy.

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Release dateJan 7, 2020
ISBN9780520974012
Martial Law Melodrama: Lino Brocka’s Cinema Politics
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José B. Capino

José B. Capino is Associate Professor of English and Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His first book, Dream Factories of a Former Colony, received the prize in cultural studies from the Association for Asian American Studies.  

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