Celluloid democracy cinema and politics in Cold War South Korea

"Korean filmmakers, distributors, and exhibitors reshaped cinema in radically empowering ways amid political turbulence from liberation through the decades of military rule (1945-1987). With acts ranging from making films that brought the dispossessed to the screen to bootlegging as an effort t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kim, Hieyoon
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland,California University of California Press 2023, [2023]©2023
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Introduction
  • To democratize cinema : filmmakers, critics, and bootleggers in the US occupation
  • In search of democracy : cinema in the postwar classroom and its grassroots network
  • At the margins of freedom : A Day Off (1968) and film censorship
  • Beyond the marginalization of women : Khaidu as a feminist experimental film collective
  • Toward a new cinema : the Seoul Film Collective's aesthetic and political subversion
  • Conclusion