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Film : American beginnings of Philippine cinema

Publisher: Center for New Cinema


Title Details
  • Film : American beginnings of Philippine cinema
Publishers
  • [s.l.]Center for New Cinema2012
Descriptions
  • 2 DVD :sd., col.4 3/4 in.
Subjects
  • Film-making (Motion pictures)
  • Film, media, cultural studies
Material Type
  • VM
  • Visual material
Location AV-3F
Copynumber 1
Status Available
Barcode DVD-0096
Main Entry
  • Personal name - Deocampo, Nick
  • Relator term - director
Title Statement
  • Title - Film : American beginnings of Philippine cinema
  • Statement of responsibility, etc. - written, directed and narrated by Nick Deocampo
Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint)
  • Place of publication, distribution, etc. - [s.l.]
  • Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Center for New Cinema
  • Date of publication, distribution, etc. - 2012
Physical Description
  • Extent - 2 DVD :
  • Other physical details - sd., col.
  • Dimensions - 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time
  • Playing time - 55 mins
Content Type
Media Type
Carrier Type
General Note
  • General note - The second episode in Nick Deocampo's continuing saga on the history of Philippine cinema, this documentary recreates through 3D-rendered animation the evolution of motion pictures during the period of U.S. colonization of the Philippines. Introduced during the time of the Philippine-American War, American film pioneers under the protection of the U.S. military made the first cinematic representations of the country and its people. With Hollywood on the rise in the decades that followed, American influences shaped the growth of cinema in the Pacific colony through technology, language (both oral and visual), mode of production, aesthetics, and ideology. Before cinema became the "national" culture that it would later assume, this documentary unravels Philippine cinema's colonial past that laid down the foundations of today's Filipino cinema. This documentary is based on Deocampo's book, Film : American Influences on Philippine Cinema.
Target Audience Note
  • Target audience note - All levels
Subject Topical Term
  • Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Film-making (Motion pictures)
  • Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Film, media, cultural studies
Index Termgenre/form
  • Genre/form data or focus term - Documentary
Personal Name
  • Personal name - Dadicas, Roy
  • Personal name - Sudario, Matt
  • Personal name - Grande, Phyllis
  • Personal name - Hernandez, Jeff