Foreword

Clodualdo del Mundo Jr.

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Parichay Patra and Michael Kho Lim

Lav Diaz through cinematic histories

a) After Brocka: Situating Lav Diaz in Philippine cinema
Clodualdo del Mundo, Jr.

b) Homeward hill: Messianic redemption in Diaz and Dostoevsky
Tom Paulus

c) Long walk to life: The cinema of Lav Diaz
May Adadol Ingawanji

d) Freedom is a long shot: A chronicle of Lav Diaz’s artistic struggle
Michael Guarneri

From death to the gods: The resurrection of the national?

a) Never, always and already Saved: Soteriology in Century of Birthing (2011); Florentina Hubaldo, CTE (2012); and Norte, the End of History (2013)
Marco Grosoli

b) The idyllic chronotope and spatial justice in Lav Diaz’s Melancholia
Katrina Macapagal

No cinema, no art either

a) How do you solve a problem like Lav Diaz?: Debating Norte, the End of History
Adrian Martin

b) Evolution of a Filipino Family and/as non-cinema
William Brown

c) Jesus, Magdalene and the Filipino Judas: Lav Diaz and his ‘artless’ epics
Parichay Patra

d) Distributing the cinema of Lav Diaz
Michael Kho Lim

Interview with Lav Diaz
A Lav affair with cinema

Tribute
Indictment and empowerment of the individual: The modern cinema of Lav Diaz
Alexis Tioseco

About the Author

Parichay Patra teaches cinema at the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur. His previous publications include Salaam Bollywood: Representations and Interpretations (Routledge, 2016, co-edited with Vikrant Kishore and Amit Sarwal).

Michael Kho Lim is lecturer of media and cultural policy at Cardiff University. He is the author of Philippine Cinema and the Cultural Economy of Distribution (Palgrave, 2019).

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