José B. Capino

Associate Professor, English
Associate Professor, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Associate Professor, Gender and Women's Studies
Associate Professor, Asian American Studies
Associate Professor, Media and Cinema Studies

Emailjcapino@illinois.edu

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Personal profile

Research Interests

Film/Visual Culture, Documentary Cinema, Postcolonial Criticism, Gender/Sexuality Studies, Asian American Studies, Philippine Studies

Teaching

Film/Visual Culture, Post-colonial, Theory & Criticism, Gender/Sexuality Studies

COURSES

Documentary Film and Video
American Documentary
Film Historiography,Cultures of US Imperialism
American Independent Cinema
Survey of International Cinema I
American Cinema Since 1950, Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese
Introduction to Film
Proseminar in the Teaching of Film

Education

Ph.D. in Radio/Television/Film, Northwestern University
M.A. in Radio/Television/Film (Film Production), Northwestern University

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Research Output 1996 2020

Martial Law Melodrama: Lino Brocka’s Cinema Politics

Capino, J. B., Dec 2020, University of California Press.

Research output: Book/Report › Book

Cinema

Movies

Melodrama

Auteur

Historical Context

Filipinos at the Border: Migrant Workers in Transnational Philippine Cinema

Capino, J. B., 2019, Border Cinema: Reimagining Identity through Aesthetics. Hanna, M. & Sheehan, R. A. (eds.). Rutgers University Press, p. 195-216

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

A Proletarian Inferno: Liner notes to the Criterion Collection Blu-ray and DVD edition of Lino Brocka's "Manila in the Claws of Light"

Capino, J. B., 2018, "Manila in the Claws of Light," a film by Lino Brocka . New York: The Criterion Collection

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Other chapter contribution

Heights

Capino, J. B., 2018, CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art. Tiongson, N. G. (ed.). Manila: Cultural Center of the Philippines, Vol. Literature. p. 471

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

Figures of Empire: American Documentaries in the Philippines

Capino, J. B., 2016, The Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia. Aitken, I. & Deprez, C. (eds.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, p. 79-104

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Documentary

Philippines

Cinema

Non-fiction

Imperialism