00000caa a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862428469 Buklod 20210628113019.0 m | | ta 210628s2013 xx r |||| u|eng d (iLib)UPBAG-00041119670 BAG rda eng ARTICLE-3680 Buenconsejo, Jose S. author. Orientalism in the narrative, music and myth of the amok in the 1937 film Zamboanga Jose S. Buenconsejo. 2013. pages 30-49 illustrations 23 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (page 47). Since the occupation of the Philippine Islands by the U.S. in 1899, Americans have viewed the Moslems of Mindanao as civilized yet aggressive. This orientalist-colonialist gaze is manifested in the film Zamboanga, a Filipino-American project directed by Filipino mestizo actor/director Eduardo de Castro, with a cast of Filipino "natives" and an Euro-American crew. A spectacle full of local color, Zamboanga has a narrative based on the cliched European trope, i.e., the abduction and recapture of the protagonist from the "seraglio". Contradicting this narrative, the original musical score by noted Hollywood composer Edward Kilenyi, Sr. is not Orientalist because it simply employed late-19th century romantic music conventionally used for such films, as well as the diegetic gong music accompanying Moslem war/martial dances. Yet, the intrusion into the film of musical sounds alien to the Zamboanga area, particularly the Hawaiian slack-key guitar and the Javanese pesindhen singing (normally accompanying a refined courtly dance), manifests musical Orientalism. These appropriations (perhaps by the director and producer) indicate the use of indexal sound icons as mere "signs of places" that disregard the specificities of cultural difference and local knowledge of Zamboanga and Sulu. The Hawaiian sound was meant to evoke the trope of a "tropical paradise" while the Javanese music depicted "Malay" civilization. Lastly, the myth of the amok is perpetuated to affirm an orientalist stereotype of the violent Moslem. Motion pictures History. Motion pictures American influences. Motion picture music History and criticism. Zamboanga (Film). Plaridel : A Philippine Journal of Communication, Media, and Society Vol. 10, Number 1 (February 2013), p. 30-49. Request full-text access via UPB University Library through https://forms.gle/KZjBv7aRtY6jiL5E9 (viewed 28 June 2021) FI UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN ARTICLE-3680 Analytics