Cold War cosmopolitanism period style in 1950s Korean cinema

"South Korea in the 1950s was home to a burgeoning film culture, one of the many 'Golden Age cinemas' that flourished in Asia during the postwar years. Cold War Cosmopolitanism offers a transnational cultural history of South Korean film style in this period, focusing on the works of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Klein, Christina
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California University of California Press [2020]©2020, 2020
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Introduction
  • Post-colonial, postwar, Cold War
  • Cold War cosmopolitan feminism
  • Public culture
  • The Après Girl : character and plot
  • Film culture, sound culture : setting, cinematography, and sound
  • Consumer culture and the black market : mise-en-scene
  • A commitment to showmanship : spectacle
  • Conclusion