Jessica hagedorn asian women in film
Jessica hagedorn asian women in film and tv.
When the writer Jessica Hagedorn was first approached by director Michael Greif about adapting her novel Dogeaters for the stage, she was dubious.
Jessica hagedorn asian women in film
I could see it as a film, but for the stage? Its so big and busy and dense, Hagedorn recalled recently.
Those are all accurate words to describe the novel, which was nominated for a National Book Award when it came out in 1990.
A sprawling pastiche about contemporary life in the Philippines, Dogeaters bounces between two different narratives: the 1950s adolescence of Rio Gonzaga, a movie-obsessed girl from an extended upper-middle-class family, and the scrappy existence of Joey Sands, a poor young half-black male prostitute who witnesses in 1982 the assassination of a popular politician (a character not unlike Benigno Aquino).
These stories are intertwined with snippets of recent Filipino history refracted through radio melodramas, news reports, and the Hollywood dreams that equally infect waiters, porn