City of Screens
City of Screens In City of Screens Jasmine Nadua Trice examines the politics of cinema circulation in early-2000s Manila. In the wake of digital media piracy and the decline of the local commercial…
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City of Screens
In City of Screens Jasmine Nadua Trice examines the politics of cinema circulation in early-2000s Manila. In the wake of digital media piracy and the decline of the local commercial film industry, the rising independent cinema movement has been a site of contestation between filmmakers and the state, each constructing different notions of a prospective, national public film audience. She traces Manila's cinema landscape by focusing on the primary locations of film exhibition and distribution: the pirated DVD district, mall multiplexes, art-house cinemas, the university film institute, and state-sponsored cinematheques.
City of Screens provides a deeper understanding of the debates about the Discourses around audiences become more salient given that films by independent Philippine filmmakers are seldom screened to domestic audiences, despite their international success.