New book from UP Press

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Prof. Patrick F. Campos, a former colleague from Miriam College's Communication Arts Department, is the author of The End of National Cinema: Filipino Film at the Turn of the Century.  It is 665 pages of film history, insights, and and is a must read for students and researchers of film and media studies.

He also authored From Cave to Cloud: Media and Information Literacy for Today.  He is also a professor at the UP Film Institute, as well as an independent film critic and an advocate of media literacy education.  He is currently the director of the Office of Research and Publication of the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication, and also enjoys the title of University Artist.

He was a popular professor in the Miriam College campus, teaching film production and visual communication.  He was instrumental in conceptualizing and organizing the Bidyo Festival which showcases the films of the graduating students. I've seen him work tirelessly with his students from the 1st semester until the festival night.  The film output of his students were innovative, daring, creative, and became a sort of springboard for some of his students who later on went into filmmaking, broadcasting, advertising, and other endeavours.  It is my belief that it was his style of teaching and his guiding light that has helped his students shine the brightest.