This lavishly illustrated art book not only provide a dazzling retrospective of over a hundred years of Philippines cinema, it also simultaneously traces its history, genres, narratives, tropes and lore while subjecting its rich filmography to critique and film theory. This book tracks Philippine cinematic beginning as a technological marvel and its many turns up to the twenty first century as blindly accepted, appropriated, indigenized and even attacked Western conventions through intentionally wicked but hilarious parodies