Celluloid Democracy : Cinema and Politics in Cold War South Korea / Hieyoon Kim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kim, Hieyoon, 1983- Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Political aspects--Korea (South)--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (182 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oakland University of California Press 2023

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Celluloid Democracy tells the story of the Korean filmmakers, distributors, and exhibitors who reshaped cinema in radically empowering ways through the decades of authoritarian rule that followed Korea's liberation from Japanese occupation. Employing tactics that ranged from representing the dispossessed on the screen to redistributing state-controlled resources through bootlegging, these film workers explored ideas and practices that simultaneously challenged repressive rule and pushed the limits of the cinematic medium. Drawing on archival research, film analysis, and interviews, Hieyoon Kim examines how their work foregrounds a utopian vision of democracy where the ruled represent themselves and access resources free from state suppression. The first account of the history of film activism in post-1945 South Korea, Celluloid Democracy shows how Korean film workers during the Cold War reclaimed cinema as an ecology in which democratic discourses and practices could flourish.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration and Translation

Introduction

1. To Democratize Cinema: Filmmakers, Critics, and Bootleggers in the US Occupation

2. In Search of Democracy: Cinema in the Postwar Classroom and Its Grassroots Network

3. At the Margins of Freedom: A Day Off (1968) and Film Censorship

4. Beyond the Marginalization of Women: Khaidu as a Feminist Experimental Film Collective

5. Toward a New Cinema: The Seoul Film Collective's Aesthetic and Political Subversion

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

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ISBN:

0-520-39438-0

OCLC:

1376195752