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Book SynopsisPassionate Revolutions examines the role of political emotions and media in the rise and fall of the Marcos regime. Focusing on the sentimental stories and melodramatic cultural politics of the press and cinema, Espiritu discusses how aesthetics helped secure the dictator’s control and fuel the popular struggles that led to his overthrow.
Trade Review“Espiritu makes a major contribution to media studies by combining sensitivity to political-economic forces and political machinations with a suggestive investigation of a layer not often discussed in media studies: the national imaginary.”
“Espiritu’s grasp of the uses of cinema in Philippine political theatre, narrated in its breathtaking scope and absurdity, is this challenging and ambitious book’s greatest strength.”
“It has almost become a truism that Philippine traditional politics is infused with, and even fueled by, emotion.…A comprehensive history of this phenomenon is still waiting to be written, but Talitha Espiritu’s
Passionate Revolutions is a good place to begin.…Drawing … generally from the ‘affective turn’ in cultural studies, Espiritu argues for a more categorical consideration of the emotive dimension of this era—a theme that is only implicitly broached (though nevertheless almost always present) in most other standard accounts.” * Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde *
