Department of English, College of LAS, University of Illinois

Dr. Jose B. Capino

Assistant Professor of English and Cinema Studies

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Contact Information

Office Hours

  • On academic leave in fall 2009

Education

Ph.D. in Radio/Television/Film, Northwestern University

Teaching Interests

Film Historiography, Nonfiction Film, Postcolonial Criticism, Cultural Theory

Courses

Film Historiography, American Independent Cinema, Introduction to Film, Documentary Film and Video, Survey of International Cinema I, Spike Lee, Proseminar in the Teaching of Film

Research Interests

Film Historiography and Criticism, Postcolonial Criticism, Cultural Theory, Philippine Studies

Publications

Books

  • Dream Factories of a Former Colony: American Fantasies, Philippine Cinema. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2010.

Book Contributions

  • "Cinema and the Usable Past." American Cinema of the 1990s. Ed. Chris Holmlund. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2008. 180-202.
  • "Philippines: Cinema and its Hybridity (or You’re Nothing but a Second-Rate, Trying Hard Copycat)." Contemporary Asian Cinema: Popular Culture in a Global Frame. Ed. Anne Ciecko. Oxford: Berg, 2006. 32-44.
  • "Asian College Girls and Oriental Men with Bamboo Poles: Reading Asian Pornography." Pornography and Culture. Ed. Peter Lehman. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2006. 206-219.
  • "Wakefield Poole, Independent Cinema & The American Avant-Garde." Contemporary American Independent Cinema from the Margins to the Mainstream. Ed. Chris Holmlund and Justin Wyatt. New York: Routledge, 2004. 155-173.
  • "Soothsayers, Politicians, Lesbian Scribes: The Philippine Movie Talk Show." Planet TV: A Global Television Studies Reader . New York: New York University Press, 2002.

Journal Articles

  • "Seizing Moving Image Pornography." Cinema Journal 46.4 (2007): 121-126.
  • "The Damned: Lino Brocka’s Infernal Melodrama, 'Insiang.'." Film Comment 42.5 (2006): 12-14.
  • "Learning from Darna, Dyesebel, Barbi, and Vampira: Notes on the Hybridity of Philippine National Cinema." Ideya 7.1 (2005): 45-58.
  • "Homologies of Text, Space and Spectatorship in All-Male Adult Theaters." Cinema Journal 45.1 (2005): 50-65.
  • "Filthy Funnies: Notes on the Body in Animated Pornography." Animation Journal 12 (2004): 53-72.
  • "Prosthetic Hysteria: Staging the Cold War in Filipino/American Docudrama." Plaridel: A Journal of Philippine Communication, Media and Society 1.1 (2004): 1-14.

Essays

  • "Lino Brocka." Exhibition catalogue of the 23rd Torino International Film Festival. Torino: Museo Nazionale Del Cinema, 2006. 206-211.

Works in Progress

  • "Projecting Empire: American Documentary Cinema in Colonial and Postcolonial Philippines" (book manuscript under revision)
  • "Brocka, Marcos, and Melodrama: Cinematic Figurations of the Authoritarian State" (book manuscript in progress)
  • "American Empire Melodramas and the 'Philippine Question,' 1911-1926" [essay]
  • "The Signs of Neoliberalism in Philippine Cinema" [essay]
  • "Fil-Am: Diasporan Figures, Globalization, and Philippine Cinema" [essay]
  • "The 'Mano Po' Film Cycle and Filipino Multiculturalism" [essay]