City Of Screens Av Jasmine Nadua Trice

In <I>City of Screens</I> Jasmine Nadua Trice examines the politics of cinema circulation in early-2000s Manila. 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. 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. Discourses around audiences become more salient given that films by independent Philippine filmmakers are seldom screened to domestic audiences, despite their international success. <I>City of Screens</I> provides a deeper understanding of the debates about the competing roles of the film industry, the public, and the state in national culture in the Philippines