HUMANITIES
The End of National Cinema Broad-ranging and empirically grounded, Patrick F. Campos’s The End of National Cinema maps the longstanding debates and new developments in Philippine cinema while illuminating the persistent but irresoluble claims made by—and on—filmmaking in the Philippines, claims that are revealing of the wider intellectual and political stakes that have to do with what it is like to live (and die) in the Philippines and what it takes to remake a society already in the throes of change.—Caroline S. Hau Patrick F. Campos is an independent critic and an Assistant Professor at the Film Institute of the University of the Philippines.
Divide by Two The Philippine media are as divided, and the division as masked. Mostly unremarked is the distinction between the dominant media (often mistakenly labeled the mainstream) and the alternative. But equally unnoticed is the segmentation within the dominant or corporate media themselves in terms of the audiences they address, which they separate into, on the one hand, the elite and middle class audience, and on the other, the mass or D and E audience. The division is evident across all the news media. Luis V. Teodoro is a retired journalism professor of the University of the Philippines (UP) College of Mass Communication (UP-CMC) where he was dean for two terms (1994–1997; 1997–2000). Peryodismo sa Bingit “Iilan ang peryodista na may control sa paghamig ng salita at ng kapangyarihan nito, lalo na sa stilong new journalism (bagong peryodismo) na nagbabadya ng ATM (at the moment) na coverage. Mula sa tradisyong pinasimulan ni Jose F. Lacaba at inilangkap sa Filipino’t inanyong personal na sanaysay ni Ricardo Lee, iniluwal ang mga akda ni Kenneth Guda: mga kwentong inetsapwera ng namamayaning midya, nananatiling napapanahon, may politikal na interes, may pinaguugatan at pinagsasangahang advokasi, kaisa ng midya at sambayanang naghahangad ng struktural na pagbabago.” —Rolando Tolentino Si Kenneth Roland A. Guda ay punong patnugot ng Pinoy Weekly. Labindalawang taon na siyang nagsusulat, nageedit, nagdidisenyo, at naglilitrato para dito.
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