Exploring the Dolphy bakla: Queerness in Philippine cinema

This chapter explores Philippine cinema’s representations of the bakla, a local gendered identitythat conflates ideas of male homosexuality and transgenderism. By examining the films of Dolphy, the chapter outlines tropes that have become associated with the bakla, including the conversion trope, wh...

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Main Author: Inton, Mikee N.
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Published: Animo Repository 2018
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Online Access:https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/5942
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Institution: De La Salle University