‘Use literature to fight oppression’
by NILLICENT B. BAUTISTA
SCREENWRITERS SHOULD portray social realities in Philippine teleseryes to persuade audiences to fight oppression, a literature professor and award-winning writer said.
Louie Jon Sanchez, a literature assistant professor from the Ateneo De Manila University, said the Filipinos’ intimate relationship with teleseryes has made it a lot easier to bring up social realities, such as the oppression under the Duterte administration.
“It is easy to use teleserye as a metaphor to describe blue ribbon committee investigations and it is easy to use teleserye as a metaphor to portray election campaigns because of the close proximity of this medium and its product to our lives,” Sanchez said during the “Scriptical Thinking: An Exploration of Philippine Teleseryes” we...
