Lost in Adaptation: Antifidelity and/in Mike De Leon’s Bilanggo sa Dilim and Bayaning 3rd World

• Main Author: Sangil, Anne Frances N.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2021
• Subjects: Mike De Leon; film adaptations; metacinematic adaptation; adaptation by transgression; Bilanggo sa Dilim; Bayaning 3rd World; Film and Media Studies; Pacific Islands Languages and Societies; South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/akda/vol1/iss2/7; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/akda/article/1016/viewcontent/6_Sangil_Lost_20in_20Adaptation_Akda_201_282_29.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

Following the tenets of auteur criticism that proposes a film auteur to have an autonomous, original, and individual voice despite the nature of filmmaking as an art form that follows the Fordist model, this essay looks at how Mike De Leon’s artistic style has become the ordering agent for his two f...