The Intramuros of Anak Dalita, the Looban of Manila Noir

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Cristobal, Geronimo, Espiritu, Talitha
• التنسيق: text
• منشور في: Archīum Ateneo 2021
• الموضوعات: cinematic city; Philippine cinema; Second World War; Korean War; suburbanization; war films; masculinity in crisis; looban; Manila; city films; Film and Media Studies; Fine Arts
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://archium.ateneo.edu/fine-arts-faculty-pubs/8; https://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/publication/7783

This article examines Lamberto Avellana’s Anak Dalita (LVN Pictures; 1956) as a crime melodrama that places Intramuros; Manila’s historic walled city; within the cinematic urban geography of film noir. It probes the film’s representation of the transformation of Intramuros from a colonial city of ca...