UP CMC to launch 11th issue of Plaridel on February 27

N.B. – More than a press release, this serves as an INVITATION for you and your colleagues to attend the launch of Plaridel‘s 11th issue on February 27, 3 p.m. at the UP CMC auditorium. Hope you can make it.

The University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication (UP CMC) will launch the 11th issue of Plaridel: A Journal of Philippine Communication, Media, and Society on February 27 (Friday), 3 p.m. at the CMC Auditorium, Plaridel Hall, UP Diliman.

Edited by Dr. Nicanor G. Tiongson of the UP Film Institute, the latest issue (Volume 6, Number 1, February 2009) carries the theme “Folklore and Media.”

This issue of Plaridel, according to Tiongson, former dean of the UP CMC, “focuses on the complex relationship between folklore and media, discovering and analyzing the many ways in which folklore has appeared in or influenced the media and assessing the negative and positive ways in which the media have used folklore.”

The articles in this issue are “The Fantasy-Adventure Films as Contemporary Epics, 2000-2007” by Patrick F. Campos; “Nang Mauso ang Pagpapantasya: Isang Pag-aaral sa Estado ng Kababalaghan sa Telebisyon” by Alvin B. Yapan; “Magkukuwento na si Lola: Ang Mga Kuwento ni Lola Basyang sa Radyo, Teatro, at Telebisyon” by Christine S. Bellen; “Anito: Paglalaro sa Lunan ng mga Arketipo at Laylayan” by Jema M. Pamintuan; and “Media and Myth-Making in Contemporary Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia” by Joseph T. Salazar.

There are also reviews of two books and a film, namely Mythopoeic Poe, Understanding the Masa as Audience Through the Films of Fernando Poe, Jr. written by Alfonso B. Deza (Arminda V. Santiago); Tribu directed by Jim Libiran (Fernando A. Austria, Jr.); and Appropriation of Colonial Broadcasting: A History of Early Radio in the Philippines, 1922-1946 written by Elizabeth L. Enriquez (Ricardo T. Jose).

The issue also has an interview with Dr. Michael Tan of the UP Department of Anthropology (Danilo A. Arao) and the UP Film Institute Filmography of Filipino Films 2007 (Lucenio Martin L. Lauzon, Lynette S. Quintillian and Berinice I. Zamora).

Copies of the latest and back issues of Plaridel are available at the Office of Research and Publication (ORP) of the UP CMC. For details, please call Prof. Danilo A. Arao, director of the ORP, at 920-6864 or email him at danilo {dot} arao {at} up {dot} edu {dot} ph.

2 thoughts on “UP CMC to launch 11th issue of Plaridel on February 27”

  1. Hi Sir. Great to read news about CMC.

    I am an alumna of UP CMC having taken my MA CommRes there. I plan to submit a journal article for consideration in the future issues of Plaridel. I remember it has specific topics per issue. May I know what the next ones are?

    One of my researches has been published in the August 2007 edition of Plaridel Journal.

    Thank you for your time.

    Reply: Yes, I remember you. The Office of Research and Publication (ORP) which supervises the production of Plaridel has a new director. Please get in touch with Irene regarding the themes of future issues of the journal. Thanks!

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