THE DAMNED

Insiang demonstrates that Brocka's handling of melodrama is nothing short of virtuoso and that the trappings of documentary, neorealism, and Third World exotica only obscure more fundamental affinities to the Hollywood pictures that Brocka saw as a youth in the former American colony and regard...

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Published in:Film comment 2006-09, Vol.42 (5), p.12-14
Main Author: Capino, José B.
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Aquino, Corazon
Brocka, Lino
encore
Melodrama
Melodramas
Motion picture criticism
Motion pictures
Movies
Political campaigns
Rape
Slums
Tragedies
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Summary:Insiang demonstrates that Brocka's handling of melodrama is nothing short of virtuoso and that the trappings of documentary, neorealism, and Third World exotica only obscure more fundamental affinities to the Hollywood pictures that Brocka saw as a youth in the former American colony and regarded as a formative influence on his cinematic sensibility.
ISSN:0015-119X