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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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April 2024
April 22 – “Chaotic Waters and Well-Tempered Specters: The Philippines as Source of Overseas Labor” (DOI:10.13185/KK2024.004311) is my latest journal publication and my last as tenured professor at Inha University in Korea. Two 2022 releases, Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness (pic below) and Lorcan Finnegan’s Nocebo, among a few other film titles, are discussed. It’s in the March 2024 issue of Kritika Kultura, which shifted to a triannual publication schedule late last year, and closes the special forum on Mobility in Islandic Geographies and Textual Representations in Literature, Culture, and Media Forms (Part 1). Registration required.
March 2024
March 17 – “Bold in Heaven” is my tribute to the late Jaclyn Jose, originally published March 9 in The FilAm (see previous entry).
Mary Jane Guck a.k.a. Jaclyn Jose, 1963-2024.
March 9 – A tribute I wrote (published in The FilAm) to Jaclyn Jose, one of our all-time film greats, who died at age 60, from an accident that occurred March 2.
January 2024
January 27 – Just a note that’s pointless, though not useless, to let folks know I’ve been at work on some longform projects, not all of them requiring writing. All this amid ironing out the complex and voluminous process of retirement in an East Asian setting. I’m not really surprised, having lived here for two decades, but I sure feel exhausted. It all should eventually end, as everything else does, but the prospect of rest doesn’t seem to be in sight yet. And I typically planned nothing for the future, so a holding pattern is what I’ll try to maintain for the meantime.
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