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The introduction of low-cost digital technology in filmmaking gave rise to new voices, styles, and narratives in cinema. The book examines the unprecedented emergence of regional filmmaking scattered across the Philippine archipelago outside Metro Manila. It offers a much-needed critical lens in studying these emergent films and practices in Filipino cinema in the twenty-first century. It demonstrates how regional cinema offers a new way of imagining the nation and the national cinema as an archipelago, that is, as diverse yet connected through the currents of histories and cultures. In the book, a reconceptualized framework for national cinema is offered, one that anchors on multiplicities, heterogeneity, and diversity. The new imaginary of archipelago in understanding cinema and the nation opens possibilities for a change towards a decolonizing understanding of cinema and an egalitarian and inclusive social relation in the national spaces.

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Unseating Manila-centric paradigms through an archipelagic approach, scholar-curator Katrina Tan's pathbreaking study offers crucial insights on heretofore inaccessible yet geographically and ethnolinguistically diverse Filipino films. Compelling and comprehensively detailed, Tan's inspired case studies--on film festival programming, indigenous- and Moro-centered collaborative projects, and queer short films--reveal powerful but marginalized alternatives to normative national histories.-- ""Bliss Cua Lim, author of The Archival Afterlives of Philippine Cinema (2024)""

Unseating Manila-centric paradigms through an archipelagic approach, scholar-curator Katrina Tan’s pathbreaking study offers crucial insights on heretofore inaccessible yet geographically and ethnolinguistically diverse Filipino films. Compelling and comprehensively detailed, Tan’s inspired case studies – on film festival programming, indigenous- and Moro-centred collaborative projects, and queer short films – reveal powerful but marginalised alternatives to normative national histories. * Bliss Cua Lim, author of The Archival Afterlives of Philippine Cinema (2024) *

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Katrina Ross A. Tan is an associate professor in the Department of Humanities at the University of the Philippines Los Baños. She obtained her doctoral degree from the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University in Australia. Her research interest is mainly on Filipino cinema, with particular focus on regional cinema, film festivals, stars, short films, and women in cinema.

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