Cold War cosmopolitanism : period style in 1950s Korean cinema / Christina Klein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klein, Christina, 1963- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Han, Hyŏng-mo, 1917-1999--Criticism and interpretation.

Han, Hyŏng-mo.

Han, Hyŏng-mo, 1917-1999.

Motion picture producers and directors--Korea (South).

Motion picture producers and directors.

Motion pictures--Social aspects.

Motion pictures.

History.

Criticism and interpretation.

Korea (South).

Motion pictures--Korea--History--20th century.

Motion pictures--Social aspects--Korea.

Korea.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 299 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]

Summary:

"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 Han Hyung-mo, director of the era's most glamorous and popular women's pictures, including the blockbuster Madame Freedom (1956). Christina Klein provides a unique approach to the study of film style, illuminating how Han's films took shape within a "free world" network of aesthetic and material ties created by the legacies of Japanese colonialism, the construction of US military bases, the waging of the cultural Cold War, the forging of regional political alliances, and the import of popular cultures from around the world. Klein combines nuanced readings of Han's films with careful attention to key issues of modernity, such as feminism, cosmopolitanism, and consumerism, in the first monograph devoted to this major Korean director"--Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction

Period. Postcolonial, postwar, Cold War ; Cold War cosmopolitan feminism ; Public culture

Style. The après girl : character and plot ; Film culture, sound culture : setting, cinematography, and sound ; Consumer culture and the black market : mise-en-scène ; A commitment to showmanship : spectacle

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes filmography (pages 271-272), bibliographical references (pages 273-288) and index.

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Other Format:

Online version: Klein, Christina, 1963- Cold war cosmopolitanism

ISBN:

9780520296503

0520296508

OCLC:

1120789744