How Long to Read Passionate Revolutions

How Long Does it Take to Read Passionate Revolutions?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 17 minutes to read Passionate Revolutions by Talitha Espiritu

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In the last three decades, the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos has commanded the close scrutiny of scholars. These studies have focused on the political repression, human rights abuses, debt-driven growth model, and crony capitalism that defined Marcos’ so-called Democratic Revolution in the Philippines. But the relationship between the media and the regime’s public culture remains underexplored. In Passionate Revolutions, Talitha Espiritu evaluates the role of political emotions in the rise and fall of the Marcos government. Focusing on the sentimental narratives and melodramatic cultural politics of the press and the cinema from 1965 to 1986, she examines how aesthetics and messaging based on heightened feeling helped secure the dictator’s control while also galvanizing the popular struggles that culminated in “people power” and government overthrow in 1986. In analyzing news articles, feature films, cultural policy documents, and propaganda films as national allegories imbued with revolutionary power, Espiritu expands the critical discussion of dictatorships in general and Marcos’s in particular by placing Filipino popular media and the regime’s public culture in dialogue. Espiritu’s interdisciplinary approach in this illuminating case study of how melodrama and sentimentality shape political action breaks new ground in media studies, affect studies, and Southeast Asian studies.

How long is Passionate Revolutions?

Passionate Revolutions by Talitha Espiritu is 308 pages long, and a total of 79,464 words.

This makes it 104% the length of the average book. It also has 97% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Passionate Revolutions Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 14 minutes to read Passionate Revolutions aloud.

What Reading Level is Passionate Revolutions?

Passionate Revolutions is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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