Stardom, Film Couples and Love Teams in 1970s Philippine Cinema

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de Chrishandra Sebastiampillai

Type: Etudes
Sujet: Pays > Asie du sud-est
Mots Clés: Asie du sud-est, Philippines, acteurs
Année d'édition: 2024 (31 août 2024)
Editeur: Edinburgh University Press
Collection: International Film Stars
Langue: anglais

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Relié • 248 pages
15,5 x 23,5 cm

ISBN

978-1-3995-2099-7

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Description de l'ouvrage :
Examines the multi-layered construction of film couples as a characteristic of Philippine stardom and cinema

• Proposes a new theoretical framework for the analysis of film couples that distinguishes between three distinct identities – the star couple, the screen couple, and the celebrity couple
• Examines a unique aspect of Philippine stardom, bringing Southeast Asian stardom to a wider readership of international scholars working in the fields of Film and cultural studies
• Traces the early stardom of two of the most popular and enduring female stars in the Philippines – Nora Aunor and Vilma Santos
• Examines the construction of two popular teenage film couples and the jukebox musical genre at the juncture of youth culture and authoritarianism in the early 1970s
• Contextualized by extensive archival research including teen magazines and news articles from the early 1970s

This monograph addresses a subject in star studies that is still developing outside of (and even within) Hollywood and cinemas of the West – the film couple. Known as the ‘love team’ in the Philippines, they are a transmedia phenomenon whose sheer ubiquity and variety make them an ideal case study to work towards an understanding of the film couple and how they contribute to the pleasure of watching films.

Film couples move beyond understanding the star as an individual, particularly where a popular love team is a prerequisite early training ground for successful stardom in the studio system. I explore three different identities that construct film couples and offer a vocabulary to distinguish between these identities and consider how they are inflected by each other.

I then trace how the couple is constructed at various stages by stars, studios, film and other cross-media appearances, their fandom and wider societal context.

À propos de l'auteur :
Chrishandra Sebastiampillai is Lecturer in Film, Television and Screen Studies at Monash University Malaysia. Her research interests include film stardom and celebrity, representations of race and identity in cinema, Philippine cinema and Southeast Asian cinema.

Revue de Presse :
In this wonderfully researched and illustrated exploration of Philippine star-crossed ‘Love Teams’ we get to fully comprehend how fictional film couples come to complexly embody and represent the ideologies of the nation state. Chrishandra’s very well-chosen case studies on such love couples as Aunor and Cruz, and Santos and Mortiz, enables the book to traverse historical and political contexts, from the 1950s to the present. As it does so, it maps and marks shifts in the appeal of idealised star images, the operations of the screen industries, and in the fervour of the fans who worship these wholesome, unifying figures of romantic love. This is a book that not only centres Philippine cinema into the heart of the global cultural imagination but re-imagines the way star studies should assess its famed film couples. As such, it is a must read addition to the literature on celebritised love and romance.
– Professor Sean Redmond, Deakin University, Australia

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