
Selected Publications
books, articles, book chapters, edited volumes
Pelikula Japanese Edition
2022
Co-edited the Japanese edition of Pelikula
Pelikula Vol. 6
2021
Edited Pelikula: A Journal of Philippine Cinema Vol. 6
Topos, Historia, Islas:
Film Islands and Regional Cinemas
2021
"Theorizing Region: Film and Video Cultures in Southeast Asia" dossier in Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 60.3
Huwebes, Huwebes - Rooted, Omnibus, Expansive
2021
sinekultura 16
The Figure of Home and the Negative Island in A House In Pieces
2021
Mindanews
Documentary in the time of a thousand deaths:
A despatch from the Philippines
2020
Special issue on Artists’ Moving Image, Isolation, and COVID-19 in MIRAJ: Moving Image Review & Art Journal 9.2
Allegories of Scale:
On Three Films Set in Mindanao
2021
Monographs: Essays on Asian Cinema, commissioned by the Asian Film Archive

Pelikula Vol. 5
2020
Edited Pelikula: A Journal of Philippine Cinema Vol. 5, published in the year of the COVID-19 pandemic
Scenes Reclaimed:
CCP 50 X Cinemalaya 15
2020
Co-authored and edited Scenes Reclaimed, an institutional critique that traces the Cultural Center of the Philippines' interaction and intersection with various film cultures from the Marcosian period through the post-People Power years to the age of Oplan Tokhang
Thinking About Philippine Political Documentaries Today
2020
Daang Dokyu: A Festival of Philippine Documentaries
Locating Mike de Leon in Philippine Cinema
2020
Southeast Asia on Screen: From Independence to Financial Crisis (1945-1998)
How Should I Watch Today?
Reflections on Film Programming and Pedagogy
2020
Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia 4.1
Pelikula Vol. 4
2019
Edited and launched Pelikula: A Journal of Philippine Cinema in time for the centenary of Jose Nepomuceno's Dalagang Bukid
The Politics of Religion in Southeast Asian Cinemas (special issue)
2019
Edited Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context 12.2 and contributed "Being Chanthaly, Becoming Lao Cinema," on the first horror film produced in Laos
Art Archive 02 (Cinema Section)
2019
Edited the cinema section of Art Archive 02 and contributed "Small Film, Global Connections"
Special Issue
2019
Edited Plaridel: A Philippine Journal of Communication, Media, and Society 16.1

Creating Communities
2019
A college textbook published by Vibal

One Hundred Years of Philippine Cinema: The 1990s to the Present
2018
Contributed the articles "One Hundred Years of Philippine Cinema: The 1990s to the Present," "Batang West Side," and “Kidlat Tahimik, A Pioneer Independent, Inter/National, and Indigenous Filmmaker” to Agung 21.3

2018
Ma Wentao's translation of my article "The Politics of Naming a Movement"
A Portrait of Kidlat Tahimik, Godfather of Filipino Indie Cinema
2018
Direk: Essays on Filipino Directors
CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art
2018
Authored 66 entries in the film, broadcast arts, and literature volumes of the CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art
Artists and Intellectuals and Their Public Spheres (Special Issue)
2017
Edited Plaridel: A Philippine Journal of Communication, Media, and Society 14.2, which also features the text of the RTD "On Canon Formation in Philippine Cinema" that I organized
Korea Crossing Cultures (Special Issue)
2017
Edited Plaridel: A Philippine Journal of Communication, Media, and Society 14.1, which also features a section on new works on Philippine cinema and "Binisaya, A New Generation of Cebuano Filmmakers," my interview with with Keith Deligero and Ara Chawdhury

From Cave to Cloud
2016
A senior high school textbook published by Phoenix
The End of National Cinema: Filipino Film at the Turn of the Century
2016
Finalist, National Book AwardFinalist, Gintong Aklat Award
Special Issue on Philippine and Indonesian Media
2016
Edited Plaridel: A Philippine Journal of Communication, Media, and Society 13.2, which also features the text of the RTD "On the AlDub Kalye Serye Phenomenon” that I organized as well as "The Emergence of a New Lao Cinema," my interview with filmmakers Anysay Keola and Xaisongkham Induangchanthy
Intellectuals, the Public Arena, and the Nation (Special Issue)
2016
Edited Plaridel: A Philippine Journal of Communication, Media, and Society 13.1, which also contains the text of the RTD "On the Poetics and Practice of Film Criticism in the Philippines" that I convened
Framing Rural Landscape in Philippine Cinema
2016
Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context 9.1
Locating Southeast Asian Horror Cinema (Special Issue)
2015
Co-edited Plaridel: A Philippine Journal of Communication, Media, and Society 12.2, which also contains "The Invention of Lao Horror," my interview with Mattie Do
Politics In Mainstream, Underground, and New Media (Special Issue)
2015
Edited Plaridel: A Philippine Journal of Communication, Media, and Society 12.1

Noli on TV
2014
Kritik/Critique
Communication and Media Theories
2014
Co-edited and contributed essays to Communication and Media Theories, a college textbook and anthology of readings on Philippine communication and media
The Philippine-American Contact, the Politics of Memory, and the End(s) of Cinematic Experimentation
2014
A Reader in Philippine Film History and Criticism
Ghostly Allegories: Haunting as Constitution of Philippine (Trans)National (Cinema) History
2013/2014
Kritika Kultura 21/22
Manila by Night as Thirdspace
2012
Kritika Kultura 19
The Politics of Naming of a Movement: Indie According to Cinemalaya Congress
2011
Philippine Humanities Review 13.1
Intersection of Philippine & Global Film Cultures in the New Urban Realism
2011
Plaridel: A Philippine Journal of Communication, Media, and Society 8.1

The New Fantasy-Adventure Film as Contemporary Epics
2010
Global Makeover: Media and Culture in Asia