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 The Philippines Through European Lenses
Late 19th Century Photographs from the Meerkamp van Embden Collection
By Otto van den Muijzenberg
Photographs of the Philippines during the nineteenth century have increasingly become accessible to the public through exhibits and publications. This present collection was made by P.K.A. Meerkamp van Embden, a Dutch businessman who later served as honorary consul of the Netherlands from 1889 to 1927. The years covered by his photographs witnessed the increasing integration of the Philippines into the world economy, the 1896 Revolution and the violent change of sovereignty from Spanish to American. The photographs are thus significant as a Dutchman's perspective on a watershed period in Philippine history. The subjects are varied: the people, streets and homes of Ermita, where Meerkamp resided; the abaca trade; Romblon and Cebu. An added bonus are photographs of the peoples of the Cordillera by Dr. Alexander Schadenberg. The text that ties together the ensemble was written by Dr. Otto van den Muijzenberg, a Dutch anthropologist who has spent years doing fieldwork in the Philippines and has a deep knowledge of its culture and history.
- Fernando N. Zialcita Ph.D.
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Ateneo de Manila University
(Taken from the back cover)
Product Details
Format: Softbound, 357 pp.
Distributor: Ateneo de Manila University Press
Pub. Date: 2008
Category: Popular History
Price: PhP 500.00
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 SineGabay
A Film Study Guide
By Nick Deocampo
Nick Deocampo's SineGabay: A Film Study Guide is the first major publication on the subject of film literacy in the Philippines-another first in the author's growing list of groundbreaking publications on the subjects of independent and alternative cinema, Filipino film history, and early cinema in the Philippines and in Asia. With this book, Deocampo offers a valuable instrument in the campaign for a national film literacy that has become his advocacy in developing a more literate Filipino audio-visual industry and its audience.
The author's more than twenty years of film exhibition all over the country from the country's northern regions to the central island of the archipelago all the way to the southern Muslim Mindanao, as well as the film festivals he has organized, have helped produce this valuable film resource guide. It contains a compilation of 100 Filipino films that he had in one way or another featured in his numerous film screenings and lectures. Included are titles of classic feature-length films, documentaries, animation, experimental films, and even propaganda movies that were shown to thousands of student viewers and community audiences.
SineGabay serves as a teaching module containing valuable lessons and informational data about the chosen films that may be of use in classrooms, festival programming, or viewing for teachers, students, critics, festival programmers, and ordinary moviegoers. Listed inside are the films' synopses, filmography, audience suitability and MTRCB ratings, recommended study areas, guide questions, and a valuable resource of contacts where to rent, purchase or borrow viewing copies.
Film Literacy-simply defined in this manual as "the use of film to impart knowledge and values"-signifies its bias towards the use of motion pictures for knowledge production and values formation. With this book, film fulfills a new and more progressive function in social development that looks at audio-visual culture as an ally to education and development. Reading about the films in this book will help one remember them not just with fondness but also with more intelligence and understanding.
- (Taken from the back cover)
Product Details
Format: Newsprint, 263 pp.
Distributor: Anvil Publishing, Inc.
Pub. Date: 2008
Category: Reference
Price: PhP 250.00
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 Acquiring Eyes
Philippine Visuality, Nationalist Struggle, and the World-Media System
By Jonathan Beller
Professor Beller in his book, Acquiring Eyes, directs incisive but at the same time admiring attention to H.R. Ocampo (painter and fiction writer), Lino Brocka (filmmaker), Ishmael Bernal (filmmaker), and Emmanuel Garibay (painter)—four masters, the profound originality and complex visuality of whose genre-specific efforts to parlay Philippine social dynamics into visual practices of engagement, struggle, and transcendence, have produced for each of them a much-deserved and committed local following, even as they remain mostly overlooked, or misunderstood, by the rest of the world’s critical communities. Yet, as Professor Beller argues, these four masters persistently aspired, by means of their masterful productions, to establish the presence of the modern in the traditional, and of the truly global or international in the maelstrom of bounded, everyday, material experiences. All four, it then would seem, are due for a long, sympathetic look, and since Professor Beller’s important work establishes quite an impressive march on them, the profit interested local and international readers can expect to draw from it is incalculable.
— Luis S. David, S.J.
Department of Philososphy
Ateneo de Manila University
(Taken from the back cover)
Product Details
Format: Softbound, 325 pp.
Distributor: Ateneo de Manila University Press
Pub. Date: 2006
Category: Arts and Culture
Price: PhP 695.00
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 Diary of the War
WW II Memoirs of Lt. Col. Anastacio Campo
By Maria Virginia Yap Morales
Lt. Col. Anastacio Campo’s diary is a revealing memoir of a Filipino officer stationed in Davao City at the outbreak of World War II. There are relatively few Filipino first-person accounts of the war and most of these are from Bataan or Manila. This account, set in Davao, opens a heretofore unknown vista for most Filipinos. Having been written at the time, it has an immediacy and personal flavor that are unique. Lt. Col. Campo’s diary is enriched with his granddaughter Maria Virginia Y. Morales’s comments and annotations that provide background information, which brings out his human side. An important addition to the Filipino memoirs of World War II, this book is a step toward making the Filipino war experience better understood as a truly nationwide experience.
— Ricardo Trota Jose, Ph. D.
Professor, Department of History
University of the Philippines
(Taken from the back cover)
Product Details
Format: Softbound, 265 pp.
Distributor: Ateneo de Manila University Press
Pub. Date: 2006
Category: Biography
Price: PhP 440.00
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