Rural dialogism: The intersections of ruralscapes and bodies in Philippine regional cinema

• Main Author: Mallari, Mary Anne D.C.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2022
• Subjects: Motion pictures > Philippines; Landscapes in motion pictures; Dialogism (Literary analysis); Film and Media Studies
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etdd_lit/2; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=etdd_lit
• Institution: De La Salle University

This dissertation proposes that rural landscapes as seen in Philippine regional cinema are contested sites of power that can also produce subversive imaginaries of the body. The idea of the rural as a contested space is explained through the conceptualization of the ‘ruralscapes,’ which was appropri...