.....Philippine cinema today is a city of bleached-brown faces and - TopicsExpress



          

.....Philippine cinema today is a city of bleached-brown faces and light-skinned faces that magically dont tan in the tropical sun. Manilawood is a city that privileges mestizo actors by placing them at the center of local narratives, actors with names that by Filipino standards are foreign. If not for the brown Filipinos in the background, a viewer of Filipino movies would think that the movie is in fact set in Mexico or in some part of latin america where the mestizaje is historically alive and well. For as long as I remember growing up in Manila, the mestizos always got the three Ms of royal treatment: Maganda (Beautiful), Maputi (Light-skinned), and Mukhang-Artista (Cinema Looks). Film is where the beautiful belong. Hence, Manilawood has become a natural pipeline for politics, the dominion of the powerful, the wealthy, and yes, the beautiful......
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 20:44:17 +0000

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