Parameters of Disavowal. Volume 1.0 : Colonial Representation in South Korean Cinema / An Jinsoo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jinsoo, An, author.

Series:

Global Korea ; 1.

Global Korea ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism in motion pictures.

Imperialism in motion pictures.

Motion pictures.

Korea (South).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Parameters of Disavowal

Place of Publication:

Oakland University of California Press 2018

Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The colonial experience of the early twentieth century shaped Korea's culture and identity, leaving a troubling past that was subtly reconstructed in South Korean postcolonial cinema. Relating postcolonial discourses to a reading of Manchurian action films, kisaeng and gangster films, and revenge horror films, Parameters of Disavowal shows how filmmakers reworked, recontextualized, and erased ideas and symbols of colonial power. In particular, Jinsoo An examines how South Korean films privileged certain sites, such as the kisaeng house and the Manchurian frontier, generating unique meanings that challenged the domination of the colonial power, and how horror films indirectly explored both the continuing trauma of colonial violence and lingering emotional ties to the colonial order. Espousing the ideology of nationalism while responding to a new Cold War order that positioned Japan and South Korea as political and economic allies, postcolonial cinema formulated distinctive ways of seeing and imagining the colonial past.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Under the Banner of Nationalism The Changing Imagery of Anticolonial Leadership

2 Film and the Waesaek ("Japanese Color") Controversies of the 1960s

3 The Manchurian Action Film A New Anticolonial Imaginary in the Cold War Context

4 In the Colonial Zone of Contact Kisaeng and Gangster Films

5 Horror and Revenge Return of the Repressed Colonial Violence

Coda After 2000

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780520968103

0520968107

OCLC:

1021064448

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access