Cruz, Denise. “Transpacific Femininities, Multimedia Archives, and the Global Marketplace.” In Transpacific Femininities: The Making of the Modern Filipina, 219-36. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012. Mangaoang, Áine. “Here Lies Love and the Politics of Disco-Opera.” In The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches, edited by Kenneth Smith Ciro Scotto and John Brackett, 347-63. New York:…
Weekly Readings
Week 11 | Asian/Americans on the Great White Way: The Case of Miss Saigon
Burns, Lucy Mae San Pablo. “‘How in the Light of One Night Did We Come So Far?’: Working Miss Saigon.” In Puro Arte: Filipinos on the Stages of Empire, 107-38. New York: New York University Press, 2013. Chow, Broderick D.V. “Here is a Story For Me: Representation and Visibility in Miss Saigon and The…
Week 10 | Staging Protest: Theater and Martial Law
Tiatco, Sir Anril P. and Bryan Levina Viray. “From Revolution to Figuration: A Genealogy of Protest Performances in the Philippines.” In Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics, edited by Peter Eckersall and Helena Graham, 89-92. Abingdon, Oxon: Taylor Francis, 2019. Lumbera, Bienvenido. “Philippine Theater in Confinement: Breaking Out of Martial Law.” Kritika Kultura 14…
Week 9 | Youth Activism: Then and Now
Mardo, Paola. “Myrla, Part I, The Underground.” Long Distance, February 25, 2020. Podcast, 28:17. Mardo, Paola. “Myrla, Part II: The Safe House.” Long Distance. March 10, 2020. Podcast, 30:07. Lacaba, Jose F. “The First Quarter Storm Was No Dinner Party: Part 1 and Part 2”. Reprinted from Days of Disquiet, Nights of Rage: The First Quarter Storm…
Week 8 | Voices, Images, and Rhythms of Resistance
Aquino, Benigno S. Jr. Transcript of undelivered speech dated August 21, 1983. New York Times, August 22, 1983. Reprinted in “Ninoy Aquino,” Official Gazette. GOVPH. Concerned Artists of the Philippines. Signos. 1983. Citizen Jake. April 5, 2022. Video, 38 mins. Vimeo. Rono, Chito S, dir. Dekada ‘70. 2002. ABS-CBN Star Cinema. July 16, 2023. Video,…
Week 7 | The Marcos Regime and the Hand of US Empire
Bareng, Eriza Ong. “Steeling the Butterfly: The Imperial Constructions of Imelda Marcos, 1966-1990.” Phd Diss. University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, 2018. Bonner, Raymond. Waltzing with a Dictator: The Marcoses and the Making of American Policy. New York: Times Books, 1987. McCann, Michael W., and George I. Lovell. “The Cold War Era: Global Empire, the Rise…
Week 6 | A Dynasty of Disinformation
Coronel, Sheila S. “Rewriting the Marcos Years,” London Review of Books 45, no. 7, March 30, 2023. Arriola, Joyce L. “Scripting the Filipino Story through Media Images: Official and Popular Notions of ‘Nation’ During the Marcos Years.” Pilipinas: A Journal of Philippine Studies 44 (2005): 33–48. Reyes, Miguel Paolo P. and Joel F. Ariate, Jr….
Week 5 | Burial and Resurrection: (New) Marcos Mythologies
Greenfield, Lauren. The Kingmaker. Showtime, 2019. 1 hr., 40 mins. Abdelfatah, Rund, et al. “Mythos and Melodrama in the Philippines.” Featuring Sheila Coronel, Vicente Rafael, and Talitha Espiritu. Produced by National Public Radio. Throughline. May 11, 2023. Podcast, 58 mins. Martin, Jocelyn S. “R.I.P., Rest in Pieces: Mnemonic Transnationality, Travel, and Translation of the…
Week 4 | Never Forget: State Repression, Terror, and Plunder in the “Golden Age”
Mijares, Primitivo. The Conjugal Dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos. 1976. Reprinted by Tatay Jobo Elizes, 2016. Ateneo de Manila Rizal Library. Fernandez, Lourdes. “Miranda Bombing: Beyond the Scars.” Business Mirror (Makati, Philippines), August 21, 2021. Red, Jon and Jeanette Ifurung, dirs. Batas Militar. 1997. Foundation for Worldwide People Power. EDSA People Power Revolution. February 20,…
Week 3 | Imelda/Estrella: Intersections of Gender, Class, Labor, and Politics
Niu, Greta Ai-Yu. “Wives, Widows, and Workers: Corazon Aquino, Imelda Marcos, and the Filipina ‘Other’.” NWSA Journal 11, no. 2 (1999): 88–102. Roces, Mina. “The Gendering of Post-War Philippine Politics.” In Gender and Power in Affluent Asia, edited by Krishna Sen and Maliva Stivens, 291-316. London: Taylor and Francis, 1998. Montenegro, Himaya and Verna Dina Q….
Week 2 | “I have to look beautiful”: Politicizing Beauty, Romance, and Scandal
Rafael, Vicente L. “Patronage and Pornography: Ideology and Spectatorship in the Early Marcos Years.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 32, no. 2 (1990): 282–304. Espiritu, Talitha. “The Marcos Romance and the Cultural Center of the Philippines: The Melodrama of a Therapeutic Cultural Policy.” Journal of Narrative Theory 45, no. 1 (2015): 141–62. Hau,…
Week 1 | Imelda Marcos: Performing Politics
Diaz, Ramona, dir. Imelda. 2003. Cinediaz. January 21, 2022. Video, 1 hr., 43 mins. YouTube. Balance, Christine Bacareza. “Dahil Sa Iyo: The Performative Power of Imelda’s Song.” Women & Performance 20, no. 2 (2010): 119–40. Kotlowski, Dean J. “The Possibilities and Limitations of First-Lady Diplomacy: Imelda Marcos and the Nixon Administration.” Diplomatic History 40, no….