Sino malaya?: Melodrama and the Integration of Contemporary Social Issues in Philippine Independent Films

• Main Authors: Dungan, Maureen Alexandra A., Geronimo, Miracle Joyce C., Morales, Japheth Sean S., Tantoco, Cristen Dominique L.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2021
• Subjects: independent films; melodrama; contemporary social issues; Philippine cinema; films
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/conf_shsrescon/2021/poster_men/3; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/conf_shsrescon/article/1715/viewcontent/Dungan_et_al.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

Various film critics have written about the dominant themes found in independent films, such as gender and sexuality, culture, and sociopolitical issues. Independent filmmakers have distinctive ways of portraying these issues. Guided by Pathak (2017)’s framework on melodrama, the researchers chose t...