A.Y. 2022-2023 [2nd Semester]

Film 180-Film Seminar:  Issues Perspectives in Film, with Emphasis on the Philippine Context 

            This course maps out the interfaces of martial law and the cinema produced in the period, and examines how political cinema then is depoliticized for the historial revisionist project of the present.  It builds the historical literacy and critical frames to comprehend, negotiate and memorialize  the trauma of martial law (1972-1981) and the Marcos dictatorship (1972-1986),  how the social actors then and now mobilize traditional and social media in disinformation and fake news, and why this generation is primarily  tasked to rise to the challenges in the ongoing historical forgetting and amnesia.  With history comes truth, and with truth comes the responsibility to see it come to light.

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