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... Ang Nawawal a (dir. Marie Jamora, 2012) and Rakenro l (dir. Quark Henares, 2011) are two coming-of-age feature films set in Manila’s indie rock scene. Because of their direct involvement in this scene, both indie directors hold the authenticity necessary for access to certain musical venues...

... This chapter discusses Barry Jenkins’s Medicine for Melancholy (2008), exploring the film’s accounting of blackness, city, and historiographic rupture in the age of neoliberalism. The chapter argues that the film’s story of a black man and black woman who couple for a day after a one-night stand...

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