Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Written in clear and urgent prose,
Martial Law Melodrama invites a wide readership, giving access to an intricate sociopolitical history and awakening the desire to revisit Brocka’s impressive oeuvre . . ." * Film Quarterly *
“A close examination of Brocka’s films, which considers them within the context of social and political trends, as well as within the framework of Brocka’s life and career.” * Cineaste *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Country and the City: Social Melodrama and the Symptoms
of Authoritarian Rule
2. “A Thoroughly Different Kind of Mother”: Surrogate Autocrats,
Restive Youth, and the Maternal Melodrama
3. The Melodramatics of Crime: Film Noir in the Twilight of Martial Law
4. Tales of Unrelenting Misfortunes: Family Melodrama and the 1980s
Economic Crisis
5. Men in Revolt: Two Experiments in Political Cinema
6. A Dirty Affair: Political Melodramas of Democratization
7. Picturing “A Faggot’s Dilemma”: Sexuality, Politics, and a Commerce
in Queer Movies
Coda: Three Non-endings
Notes
Index
