Alternative cinema : the unchronicled history of alternative cinema in the Philippines /
Nick Deocampo
- Diliman Quezon City, Philippines : The University of the Philippines Press, c2022
- xviii, 888 pages ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Chapter 1. Martial Law and the search of a new cinema -- Chapter 2. Period of Early cinema -- Chapter 3. Under the Shadow of industrial cinema till world war II -- Chapter 4. Technological Shift from Celluloid Film to Digital Video -- Chapter 5. Postwar Emergence of Philippine Alternative Cinema -- Chapter 6. Golden Age of Philippine alternative cinema -- Chapter 7. Innovations in Digital Cinema -- Chapter 8. Digital Spread of Alternative Cinema -- Chapter 9. Advancing the gains of alternative Cinema -- Chapter 10. Radicalism and revolution in Philippine Alternative Cinema -- Chapter 11. Archipelagic Cinema Redefines National Cinema -- Chapter 12. Conclusions: Nomadic journeys of a thousand cinemas -- Afterword by Teddy Co.
A monumental work both in scope and in effort. It's turned into the bible of alternative film and of the multiple characteristics of alternative works in the Philippines: its theory, its history, its impact and the people who catapulted it into the international limelight.