Modern Philippine Cinema and Drama

 

IP367 (WRITING INTENSIVE)
Fridays, 3:30 - 6:0 pm
Spalding

Instructor: Chris B. Millado
email: millado@hawaii.edu
voice: (808) 956-6086


Welcome. The course takes the participants on a historical survey of Philippine Motion Pictures since the introduction of the first Chronophotograph in Manila in the early 1900s until the Independent Experiments of Filipino and Filipino American filmmakers in the Nineties. Attention is given to the interaction between Philippine Theater and the steadily evolving Motion Picture Industry. The works of leading film pioneers like Gerry de Leon, Lamberto Avellana and the internationally known works of Lino Brocka, Ishmael Bernal, Marilu Diaz-Abaya, Mike de Leon, Eddie Romero among others will be examined and viewed in the class. Filmscripts and playscripts of writers like Ricardo Lee, Rene Villanueva, Marilu Jacob, Nick Joaquin, Tony Perez will be examined as literature and will be seen within specific political and historical circumstances that surrounded and permeated the works. Find out about the people, the lives, the times that shaped what could be the singlemost influential force in Philippine Culture --- "pelikula" or cinema.