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'[Sine ni Lav Diaz] contains ten chapters, which are complemented by an in-depth interview conducted by the book’s editors with Diaz and a reprinted tribute to the director’s work by the late film critic Alexis Tioseco. [...] Sine ni Lav Diaz is a good collection of works on the Filipino director with a rather broad mix of tones and styles. The editors provide material that is of interest to academic readers as well as the general public.' -- Nadin Mai, Philippine Studies 'The volume poses a methodological quandary about how to study Diaz as a global auteur. [...] The task this volume undertakes is neither one of specificity (what specifically marks Diaz as distinctly Filipino), nor as similative (that he enfolds the multiple genealogies mentioned above). What the contributors appear to present are a set of frictions and fissures that surface when theorizing about Diaz as a global auteur, and sometimes, the impossibility thereof. Most significantly, the book encourages us to rethink the auteur beyond a positive, additive or comparative vein, and offers in its stead, negativity, lacunae and failing as a space from which to begin auteurial enquiry. The volume begins where a film ends. “Sine ni Lav Diaz” offers us the signature as ever-expanding, challenges a notional site to imagine who, what and where Diaz might be, and even expounds what the aporias and limits of theorizing Diaz are. For us, Diaz exists, only to be slowly chiselled away.' -- Pujita Guha, Senses of Cinema

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Parichay Patra teaches cinema at the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur. His previous publications include Salaam Bollywood: Representations and Interpretations (Routledge, 2016, co-edited with Vikrant Kishore and Amit Sarwal).  Michael Kho Lim is lecturer of media and cultural policy at Cardiff University. He is the author of Philippine Cinema and the Cultural Economy of Distribution (Palgrave, 2019).

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