Lilas: An Illustrated History of the Golden Ages of Cebuano Cinema

By Paul Grant, Ph.D., Misha Anissimov (Author)

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This book is the result of three years of research at the Cebuano Studies Center at the University of San Carlos, Cebu and is collaborative project of two authors who wish to fill a certain gap in the history of cinema. The project is not a total history of cinema in Cebu, but rather addresses the productive periods that correspond roughly to the 1950s and the 1970s. Further, it is about the cinema in Cebu made during what is more of less classical mode of film production, namely the films that emerge on video and digital formats are not treated here.While two authors consulted each other with regards to the entire text, each undertook particular sections. Paul Douglas Grant wrote the introduction and Part 1, and assisted in the translation of The Batul of Mactan. Misha Boris Anissimov is responsible for Part 2. Erik Tuban and CD Borden are responsible for the translation of Ang Medalyon nga Bulawan.Our hope is that this book may serve multiple purposes one of which is to offer some visual pleasure to those who may have vague recollections of what the ephemera of this cinematic tradition looked like and hopefully triggering memories of those films that currently only exist there precisely: in the memories of former spectators. Another purposed is to provide a rudimentary textbook for students of cinema, history and popular culture, to which these students of cinema, history and popular culture, to which these may turn in order to continue further research into the history of the phenomena. to this end the essays in this collection are historical and stop before 1980s when Cebuano cinema grinds to halt in favor of television and before the explosion of digital technologies.

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