Split screen Korea : Shin Sang-ok and postwar cinema / Steven Chung.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chung, Steven, 1974- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sin, Sang-ok, 1926-2006--Criticism and interpretation.

Sin, Sang-ok.

Sin, Sang-ok, 1926-2006.

Criticism and interpretation.

Korea (South)--In motion pictures.

Korea (South).

Physical Description:

262 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]

Summary:

Shin Sang-ok (192-006) was arguably the most important Korean filmmaker of the postwar era. Over seven decades, he directed or produced nearly two hundred films, and his career took him from late-colonial Korea to postwar South and North Korea to Hollywood. In Split Screen Korea, Steven Chung illuminates the story of postwar Korean film and popular culture through the first in-depth account in English of Shin's remarkable career. Combining close readings of a broad range of films with research on the industrial and political conditions of Korean film production, Split Screen Korea shows how cinematic styles, popular culture, and intellectual discourse bridged the divisions of postwar Korea, raising new questions about the implications of political partition. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: visible ruptures, invisible borders

The century's illuminations: the enlightenment mode in Korean cinema

Regimes within regimes: film and fashion in the Korean 1950s

Authorship and the location of cinema: in the region of Shin films

Melodrama and the scene of development

"It's all fake": Shin Sang-ok's North Korean revisions

Conclusion: post-development pictures.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.

ISBN:

9780816691333

0816691339

9780816691340

0816691347

OCLC:

856861079