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Cinema Studies Faculty


Jose Capino




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Assistant Professor of English
Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies


Address
250 English, MC-718
608 S. Wright Street
Urbana, Illinois 61801
phone: (217) 333-0983
fax: (217) 333-4321
email: jcapino@illinois.edu
Personal web page (English)



Major Research Interests
Film and Television Criticism and Historiography
Documentary Studies
Cinema and Sexuality
Cinema and Postcoloniality



Selected Publications

  • “You're Nothing But a Second-Rate, Trying Hard Copycat: Notes on the Hybridity of Philippine Cinema” in Contemporary Asian Cinemas: Popular Culture in a Global Frame, edited by Anne Tereska Ciecko. New YOrk: Berg, 2006 (forthcoming)
  • “1997: Movies, Catastrophes and the Reconstruction of History” in Screen Decades: The 1990s (forthcoming)
  • “Homologies of Space, Text and Spectatorship,” Cinema Journal (2005)
  • “Seminal Fantasies: Wakefield Poole, Independent Cinema and the Avant-garde” in American Independent Cinema: From the Margins to the Mainstream
  • (Routledge, 2004)
  • “Filthy Funnies: Notes on the Body in Animated Pornography,” Animation Journal (2004)




University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Unit for Cinema Studies
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5.16.2008 rjl