Fields of Vision: Critical Applications in Recent Philippine Cinema Anthology and Essay Published in 2007 by Goethe-Institut

Published in 2007 by Goethe-Institut Manila

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Fields of Vision: Critical Applications in Recent Philippine Cinema Anthology and Essay Published in 2007 by Goethe-InstitutFields of Vision marks a departure from previous book length approaches to Philippine film criticism in its scholarly application of modernist principles. Such issues as auteurism, structuralism, and spectatorship are pursued with the view of testing their usefulness for Philippine cinema, instead of simply dismissing them in the wake of more recent methodologies. The longer critical essays in the anthology tend to encompass Philippine film history,