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Here Lies Love in Critical Contexts: A Public Syllabus

July 10, 2023

Week 12 | Critical Immersion; or Critical Readings of Here Lies Love

 

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: Taylor and Francis, 2019.

Eng, Chris A. “‘Why Don’t You Love Me?’ Post/Colonial Camp and the Imeldific Fetish in Here Lies Love.” American Quarterly 71, no. 4 (2019): 993-1020.

Chow, Broderick D. V. “Seeing as a Filipino: Here Lies Love (2014) at the National Theatre.” In Reframing the Musical : Race, Culture and Identity, edited by Sarah K. Whitfield, 17-34. London: Bloomsbury, 2019.

Francia, Luis H. “When Disco was the Soundtrack to Martial Law: David Byrne, Fatboy Slim, and Imelda Marcos.” Fanzine, April 5, 2010. Wayback Machine.

Apostol, Gina. “Dancing with Dictators.” Los Angeles Review of Books, December 2, 2014.

Carrion, Miguel Francesco. “Here Lies Love, Stolen Wealth, and Dead Bodies.” Golden Gate Xpress, May 14, 2023.

Andrei, Amanda L. “‘Here Lies Love’ Review: Messiness and Discord on the Dance Floor.” Rappler (Pasig, Philippines), July 23, 2023.

Andrei, Amanda L. “The Complicated Triumph of ‘Here Lies Love.’” American Theatre, August 1, 2023.

Gamalinda, Eric. “Inventing Imelda: A Review of ‘Here Lies Love’ on Broadway.” Rappler (Pasig, Philippines), July 26, 2023.

 

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Macaspac, Nerve V. and Lara Saguisag. “Here Lies Love in Critical Contexts: A Public Syllabus.” 2023. wp.nyu.edu/herelieslovesyllabus/

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