Beauty and Brutality: Manila and Its Global Discontents (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781439922279)

Martin F. Manalansan IV is a Professor in the Department of American Studies and the Beverly and Richard Fink Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He is the author, editor, or coeditor of several publications, including Cultural Compass: Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America, which won the Cultural Studies Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies in 2002, and Q&A: Voices from Queer Asian North America (both Temple).

Robert Diaz is an Associate Professor in the Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. He is the coeditor of Diasporic Intimacies: Queer Filipinos and Canadian Imaginaries and a contributor to Filipino Studies: Palimpsests of Nation and Diaspora and Global Asian American Popular Cultures. His writing has also appeared in Signs, GLQ, TSQ, Journal of Asian American Studies, Asian Diasporic Visual Culture and the Americas, Women and Performance, and Topia.

Roland B. Tolentino is a Professor at the University of the Philippines Film Institute. He is the former Dean of the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication, and former Director of Likhaan: the University of Philippines Institute of Creative Writing where he is also a fellow. He has taught at the Osaka University, National University of Singapore, and the University of California, Berkeley. He is the Chair of the National Committee on Cinema, and Commissioner for the Subcommission on the Arts of the National Committee for Culture and the Arts, as well as a board member of the Film Development Council of the Philippines.