MONSTERS IN THE PACIFIC: The Philippines in the Hollywood Geopolitical Imaginary.
The recent announcement of the American strategic pivot to the Asia Pacific calls for the examination of the ways by which the region, particularly its constituent states, is produced in and by the US imperialist imaginary. This essay responds to such critical imperative by analyzing the geopolitica...
| Publicado en: | Kritika Kultura no. 29; pp. 80 - 101 |
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