Acknowledgments; List of figures; Introduction; Part I: Locating Philippine urban cinema; Chapter 1: Spatial justice and the slum chronotope; Chapter 2: The rise of Manila slums and Philippine urban cinema; Chapter 3: The slum chronotope in Philippine cinema genres and modalities; Part II: Routes of reading Philippine urban cinema; Chapter 4: Kids in the hood: Chronotopes of passage in Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros and Tribu; Chapter 5: Women walking: Affective chronotopes in the melodramatic imaginaries of Kubrador, Foster Child, and Lola; Chapter 6: Men on the move: Chronotopes of mobility in the noir imaginaries of Kinatay, Metro Manila, and On the Job; Chapter 7: Migrants in Transit: The slum chronotope and chronotopes of in/visibility in the Overseas Filipino Worker genre; Chapter 8: Sounds of youth: The production of noise and chronotopes of performance in Respeto; Conclusion; Bibliography