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Summary:

"The colonial experience of the twentieth century from 1910 to 1945 shaped the culture and identity of Korea, yet the manner in which South Korean postcolonial cinema depicts this troubling past has not received sufficient scholarly attention. Parameters of Disavowal seeks to break this hiatus. It approaches the subject of the colonial past in South Korean cinema as a particular kind of postcolonial knowledge production that responds to the repercussions of Cold War geopolitics while also subscribing to the precept of anticolonial nationalism. It advances beyond manifest readings of anticolonial messages by examining how postcolonial cinema not only posits, but also constructs Korean national history through disavowals and elisions of the very past they wish to represent. In particular, this book focuses on how South Korean films have created ways of seeing and imagining the colonial past by privileging certain Korean sites as spaces generating unique meanings and values contrary to the assumed total domination of the colonial power. These films thereby inscribe colonial power within parameters of disavowal, ultimately rendering it delimited, incomplete, and flawed. This unique cinematic mode of visualization, the author argues, has shaped historical thinking about Korea's colonial past and demands further investigation of the relationship between politics and aesthetics in cinema"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• Under the banner of nationalism : the changing imagery of anti-colonial leadership
• Reckoning and cooperation : film and the Waesaek ("Japanese color") controversies of the 1960s
• The Manchurian action film : a new anti-colonial imaginary in the Cold War context
• In the colonial zone of contact : Kisaeng and gangster films
• Horror and revenge : return of the repressed colonial violence
• Coda : after 2000.

Author/Creator:

An, Jinsoo, 1968- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Parameters of disavowal: colonial representation in South Korean cinema [by An, J.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Parameters of disavowal [by An, J.] (Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018] — ISBN 9780520295308; LCCN 2018002008)

Related Series:

Global Korea; [volume] 1

Subjects:

Motion pictures — Korea (South) — History — 20th century

Imperialism in motion pictures — 20th century

Nationalism in motion pictures — 20th century

1900-1999

Imperialism in motion pictures

Nationalism in motion pictures

Motion pictures

Korea (South)

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

PN1993.5.K6 A555 2018eb

ISBNs:

9780520968103 (Pub)
0520968107
9780520295308 (pbk., alk. paper) [Invalid]
0520295307
9780520295308

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2018004386

OCLC Numbers:

1021064448