TY  - BOOK
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AU  - J. Pilapil Jacobo
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SN  - 2
PY  - 2012///46
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KW  - 2
KW  - 0
KW  - 6
KW  - 20
KW  - Transparency
KW  - Semiosis
KW  - Dissemination
KW  - sears0
N1  - ABSTRACT :  If Philippine cinema, during a time of dictatorial duress, has indeed gathered into its fold allegories of a certain social texture, then contmeporary critique must also provide a rather thick notion of allegory itself, in order to describe the quality of the metonymic membranes which make possible the emergence of substance through eloquent surface. In this essay, I propose a critical elaboration of Laura Mulvey's category carapace, anda subtle yet significant declension of surface, diaphane, in an attempt to intervene in the understanding of film as a plastic form with the coordinates of its semiotic labor s theory of texture, the tactile , and textuality itself. I compare Ishamael bernal's Manila by Night (1980)and peque Galla's Scorpio Nights (1985) to intuit that moment when, compellingly, through certain figures of ambivalence, the trope of the carapace can disseminate its attempt to enclose the world in discursive gambit; 5
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