Movie minorities: transnational rights advocacy and South Korean cinema
Hye Seung Chung and David S. Diffrient
- Resource Type:
- E-Book
- Publication:
- New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2021
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- Summary:
- "Rights advocacy has become a prominent facet of South Korea's increasingly transnational motion picture output, especially following the 1998 presidential inauguration of Kim Dae-jung, a former political prisoner and victim of human rights abuses who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000. Today it is not unusual to see a big-budget production about the pursuit of social justice or the protection of civil liberties contending for the top spot at the box office. With that cultural shift has come a diversification of film subjects, which range from undocumented workers' rights to the sexual harassment experienced by women to high-school bullying to the struggles among people with disabilities to gain inclusion within a society that has transformed significantly since winning democratic freedoms three decades ago. Combining in-depth textual analyses of films such as Bleak Night, Okja, Planet of Snail, Repatriation, and Silenced with broader historical contextualization, Movie Minorities offers the first English-language study of South Korean cinema's role in helping to galvanize activist social movements across several identity-based categories"-- [Provided by publisher]
- Author/Creator:
- Chung, Hye Seung, 1971- , author
- Contributors:
- Diffrient, David Scott, 1972- , author
- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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- General Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record. - Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Call Numbers:
- PN1993.5.K6 C5453 2021eb
- ISBNs:
- 9781978809666 (electronic bk.)
1978809662 (electronic bk.)
9781978809642 [Invalid]
1978809646 [Invalid]
9781978809659 [Invalid]
1978809654 [Invalid] - OCLC Numbers:
- 1256803974
- Other Control Numbers:
- EBC6642390 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp17278555