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Item Values beyond entertainment: Audience reception on satirical film “Ded na si Lolo”Albesa, Adrianne; Dusaban, Edwin, Jr.; Paguntalan, Angela (Division of Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines Visayas, 2015-06)This study looks into whether or not film enthusiasts recognize socio-cultural verisimilitude in the film Ded na si Lolo. The respondents of this study are film enthusiasts from the University of the Philippines Visayas who are active filmmakers and participate film festivals in Western Visayas. Data collection is done in two sessions of focus group discussion with a total of 12 participants. The film Ded na si Lolo is shown to the participants after which they are asked open-ended questions on their perception. Responses are coded and interpreted through thematic analysis. An observation in this research is that the encoded message in the film is easily decoded if the viewers are familiar with the film elements (i.e. characters, setting, plot., etc.) and also with real life issues and scenarios. However, being too familiar with film elements puts the viewer at risk of misinterpreting the message content or assigning meanings that were not intended by the filmmaker. All are able to recognize the socio-cultural verisimilitude of the film Ded na si Lolo and most of the audience, still, are able to decode the encoded message of the filmmaker. The results imply that Ded na si Lolo, being satirical in nature, has not been very successfull in delivering its message to criticize the funeral customs and beliefs of the Philippine culture. The study concludes that if the satirical purpose of the film is not fully grasped by film enthusiasts who have the ability to analyze and decode messages from the film, this might be even more challenging for the general population.Item Isugid sa luy-a: "Professional" competence in Tibiaoanon's healing rituals and practices —from 1978 to 2021Alvarado, Samantha Joy A. (Division of Social Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines Visayas, 2022-07)Following the interactions between the local healer’s ethnomedical knowledge and professional’s modern medical practices, this study forwards the idea of professional competence, as a reciprocation of Cross et. al’s Cultural Competence theory, which shifts the focus of examination from medical experts to Tibiao traditional local healers who had subscribed and adopted the methods and principles of medical professionals. A documentation of the predominant healing rituals in Tibiao, Antique, namely, pangluy-a, pagbutbot, and pagtong-li as well as Tibiaoanon’s concept of health and illnesses was done to anchor the analysis of professional competence. Using the idea of Espanola on cultural competence, particularly, on cultural self-assessment and integration of knowledge in the health practices, this study analyzed the narratives of the respondents and proved that professional competence manifested in how manugbulongs or local healers assessed and acknowledged their views about their selves and about medical professionals and their practices throughout the period of 1978- 2021. Another manifestation of professional competence is the integration of medical knowledge through having referral systems to the doctor and the use of modern synthetic medicine to complement the healing rituals. Key informant interviews and participant observation were done with 15 respondents (manugbulongs and their patients) coming from Barangay Malabor, Barangay Martinez, and Barangay San Francisco Sur in Tibiao, Antique. Expanding on the cultural competence theory, professional competence, therefore, showed that manugbulongs did not necessarily resist and reject the influences of modernity but rather acknowledged and appropriated it to their own ethnomedical system.Item Physical characterization of aswang in Filipino filmsArcenio, Ariane G.; Perez, Trexie Jane A. (Division of of Humanities , College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines Visayas, 2013-04)This study is a content analysis on the physical characterization of aswang in Filipino films. This study determined how the Filipino films characterized aswang. Descriptive research design was used in analyzing and tallying the physical characteristics of aswang in the Filipino concept and in the eight Filipino films. Interviews with film directors were also utilized for additional support of this study. The concept of aswang emerged because of the demonization of women especially the babaylans, by the Spanish priests in the history of the Philippines. It was found out that in both Filipino concept and Filipino films, there were differences on the physical characterization of aswang. Films used the concept of aswang to perform the role of media which is to entertain the audience.Item Gahom sa binalaybay: Mayamor's poetry as vehicle of power in the resistance movement of PanayArceño, Angeliza T. (Division of Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines Visayas, 2016-12)This study analyzes Mayamor’s poetry as a vehicle of power in the resistance movement of Panay. Using New Historicism and textual analysis, this study identifies the cultural status quo in Mayamor’s poetry as Feudal and describes its manifestations and his mechanisms to counter it by waging a National Democratic revolution through a protracted people’s war and cultural revolution. Mayamor’s poems serve as a vehicle of power in the resistance movement of Panay by using poetry as a tool to teach people about the situation in the countryside of Central Panay, for exposing the cruelty of the state and the ruling class, by being a testimony to the plight of the people, and by inviting them to be allies and join the struggle in the countryside.