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Ámauteurish! is the open-access repository of the collected work of and/or by Joel David, set up and maintained as a single-source personal archival website. It includes out-of-print publications and links to still-available articles, with occasional relevant public-domain material. For a comprehensive list of posts uploaded since 2014 up to the preceding year, also in reverse chronological order, please click here. In case the top-page menu is inaccessible, here are the sections and their features:
♦ Abouts – provides extensive descriptions of the rationale as well as of the author;
♦ Books – contains my out-of-print books and links to published books, as well as edited volumes, chapters in anthologies, and papers in proceedings;
♦ Articles – a landing page that leads to listings of all materials published in journals and all other types of periodicals;
♦ Reviews – contains my commentaries on films as well as occasional books and plays, arranged according to title of production (Auteurs & Authors reorders this same list according to each work’s creator);
♦ Remarks – contains my articles and statements published since 2016, opening with “Mega-Meta: A FilmCrit Folio”;
♦ Extras – would be mostly my non-written output, plus selected ephemera and juvenilia, opening with a “Special Folio on Manila by Night (1980)”; and
♦ Queries – provides a means by which I can be reached, as well as answers to some questions asked here and in other venues.
♦ Not included in the menu but a compilation of several sections above would be this Chronologically Arranged Listing of Publications, with its own accompanying Empiricals page.
First-time readers: This current section serves as the home (or front) page of the blog. Buttons for sharing on Facebook or Twitter, or by email, will appear at the bottom of each page of the browser version, along with copyright and other essential notices. In general, when an entry’s permanent listing in this blog is unspecified, it will be found in its appropriate subcategory in the Extras section.
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March 2026
March 1 – Vicente L. Rafael, a renowned Philippine historian who innovated in the field by using cultural studies approaches, passed away before his time in late February. He had (as far as I could surmise) only one article-length treatment of Philippine popular culture, titled “Patronage, Pornography, and Youth,” from his book White Love and Other Events in Filipino History (Duke University Press, 2000). To commemorate his long-running contributions, I have made the piece available at the Fil(m)ipiniana section of this blog’s Extras page.
February 2026
February 25 – “Cracked Mirrors” is the blog version of my first review (first published in The FilAm) of a film directed and written by Joselito Altarejos, titled Greatest Performance.
Sunshine Cruz as comebacking actress Yvonne Rivera in Greatest Performance; also starring Oliver Aquino, Soliman Cruz, and Ahlyxon Leyva.
February 2 – An acquaintance queried me about Greatest Performance, Nora Aunor’s unfinished auteurist attempt. Since I wrote about it for a journal article, I remember having completed a sequence listing though ordinarily I would have done a full transcription. For some reason I also failed to upload what I had on this blog, unlike my material on other films I researched. Better late than never, so for what it’s worth, here’s the GP sequence breakdown I made. [Warning to prospective viewers: the film may yet be finalized in some form or other, so please regard the spoilers in this list as strictly for academic purposes.]
February 1 – An Indian film directed by Lamberto V. Avellana, made in 1970 and intended to be Dev Anand’s second though still-unsuccessful stab at creating a Hollywood presence, titled The Evil Within. Ironically it was banned in India, though it was screened in Pinas, and inevitably proves to be a mixed bag. Still surprising for several touches one would never have expected of Avellana. I downloaded the YouTube file and polished the website’s automatic transcription.
January 2026
January 1 – My first journal-editing task in Korea, as copyeditor for the special issue of Cross-Cultural Studies (Winter 2025) titled Judith Butler and Korea, from Kyung Hee University’s Center for Cross-Cultural Studies, formally announced on social media (link to the Korea Journal Central website). Professor Butler was in the country right after the coup attempt that led to the ouster of the previous President, so she was not just in the news but also in a lot of academic discourses.
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