Four Values in Filipino Drama and Film

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Symbols of Social Stratification in the Philippines

Light coloring is correlated with intelligence and a light-skinned attractive person will receive advancement before his or her colleagues. position and patron-client associations are useful in achieving success.
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Family

 Money

to buy consumer goods is an indicator of power. a vehicle is a clear statement of a high social level. above the poverty level have extensive wardrobes. one's children to the best schools is the most important indicator of social position.

Owning Women

Sending

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Aesthetics
is

a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty, art, and taste, and with the creation and appreciation of beauty. called judgments of sentiment and taste. as "critical reflection on art, culture and nature. new ways of seeing and of perceiving the world.4/21/12

sometimes defined studies

White is Beautiful
During the Spanish times:
To

be a prince or a princess in a komedya, one had to look the part. had to have sharp nose, big eyes, small mouth, and most of all, white skin. or she had to have magandang tindig, which is to be tall like a man.
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One

He

During the American regime:

Bodabil

not only singled out Filipinos who can do imitations but necessarily favored the Caucasian-looking either as the closer imitations of the originals or as leading mans types, above the ethnic-looking who, in spite of their superior talent, were relegated to slapstick comedians and roles of maids or minor friends.
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Shows are the Best

Forms of Entertainment before:
Komedya Sinakulo Zarzuela Dramas Bodabil Stage

show
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Hurrah for the Undergo

In

the Spanish times the two principal forms of literature and their dramatic counterparts set up two types of heroes for the indios edification and emulation. pasyon and its dramatic counterpart, the sinakulo. awits and koridos and their dramatic counterparts, the komedya and the moro-moro.
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The The

 During

the American regime, usually has for heroines are, blushing rural maids, utusans, labanderas, tinderas of sampaguita or kakanin who are hounded by various relentless furies, represented by adject poverty by rich donyas, evil madastras, malicious mother-in-law, and ugly but well dressed step-sisters.
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All is Right in the World

In

Spanish times, the colonial dramas always ended with the affirmation that all evil are punished and all good are rewarded.

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 In

American times, the maudlin heroines and shy heroes of the dramas and zarzuelas were showered with happy endings usually in the form of marriage to a rich mans son or daughter and were besieged by teary repentance of donyas, madrastas and sisters-in-law.

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Thank you!

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