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Outlining the rise of Philippine slums alongside the historical development of Philippine urban cinema, Slum Imaginaries and Spatial Justice in Philippine Cinema makes a novel contribution to the cinema-city nexus through its interdisciplinary framework of film studies and human geography. It formulates the theory of the 'slum chronotope' as a theoretical tool to analyse narrative and genre formation in films that dialogue with Manila's slum imaginaries, and makes the case for Philippine urban cinema - and Philippine urban history - as a significant vantage point from which to understand imaginaries of spatial justice. With case studies that take off from The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros (2005) to Respeto (2017), this book is a powerful contribution to transnational cinema studies.

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"In Macapagal's compelling analysis, poverty, the city, and the cinema come together in the ""slum chronotope."" Tracing such spatiotemporal knots across various genres of contemporary Philippine cinema - from queer coming-of-age films to migrant labor narratives - the book reclaims the political stakes of urban realist films: spatial justice, economic mobility, and social visibility for a global underclass perennially fettered by the converse. Slum Imaginaries and Spatial Justice is an indispensable text for analyzing and teaching Philippine cinema. -- ""Bliss Cua Lim, author of Translating Time: Cinema, the Fantastic, and Temporal Critique"""

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Katrina Macapagal obtained her PhD in Film and Media studies from Queen Margaret University, and her MA in Cultural and Critical Studies from the University of Westminster.

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