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Badjao: Cinematic Representations of Difference in the Philippines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2005

Aileen Toohey
Aileen Toohey
Affiliation:
The Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Queensland
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Abstract

This article examines the cinematic representation of identity through an analysis of the well-known Philippine film, Badjao. Produced in the late 1950s, Badjao successfully commercialized the idea and expression of conflict between the Tausug and Badjao ethnic groups. The study focuses on how the enactment and enunciation of identity through difference presented itself in cinema and how such representations, imbued with stereotypical cultural and religious codes, were re-formulations within nationalist discourses in the Philippines.

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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , June 2005 , pp. 281 - 312
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© 2005 The National University of Singapore

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