Pelikulang Komiks: Toward a Theory of Filipino Film Adaptation

• Main Author: Arriola, Joyce L.
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: Filipino film adaptation; Filipino source texts; hybridization; indigenization; localization; pelikulang komiks; vernacularization
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss30/30; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1763/viewcontent/KK_2030_2C_202018_20_26_2031_2C_202018_2030_20Forum_20Kritika_20on_20Critical_20Crossings_20Hybridity_27s_20Fissures_20and_20Ruptures_20__20Arriola.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This paper tackles the major assumptions of a proposed/emergent Filipino komiks-to-film adaptation theory based on archival texts from the 1950s. An inventory of extant texts has led to the identification of twelve komiks-to-film adaptations representing Filipinized genres such as the korido film, f...