Cultures of Yusin : South Korea in the 1970s / Youngju Ryu, Editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ryu, Youngju, 1974- editor.

Series:

Perspectives on contemporary Korea.

Perspectives on contemporary Korea

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Park, Chung Hee, 1917-1979.

Park, Chung Hee.

Korea (South)--History--1960-1988.

Korea (South).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource.)

Other Title:

South Korea in the 1970s

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2018.

Summary:

Cultures of Yusin examines the turbulent and yet deeply formative years of Park Chung Hee's rule in South Korea, focusing on the so-called Yusin era (1972-79). Beginning with the constitutional change that granted dictatorial powers to the president and ending with his assassination, Yusin was a period of extreme political repression coupled with widespread mobilization of the citizenry towards the statist gospel of modernization and development. While much has been written about the political and economic contours of this period, the rich complexity of its cultural production remains obscure. This edited volume brings together a wide range of scholars to explore literature, film, television, performance, music, and architecture, as well as practices of urban and financial planning, consumption, and homeownership. Examining the plural forms of culture's relationship to state power, the authors illuminate the decade of the 1970s in South Korea and offer an essential framework for understanding contemporary Korean society.

Contents:

The race to appropriate "Koreanness": national restoration, internal development, and traces of popular culture / Won Kim

[De]popularizing a Confucian master: Yusin and the birth of T'oegye studies / Hwisang Cho

Kyebaram: the culture of money and investment in South Korea during the 1970s / Eunhee Park

"My" sweet home in the next decade: the popular imagination of private homeownership during the Yusin period / Han Sang Kim

Peripheral visions of Yusin: techniscope action cinema and the anxiety of the state / Irhe Sohn

Dissident dreams: science fictional imaginations in 1970s South Korean literature and film / Sunyoung Park

Alluvium of dreams: the 1969 master plan and the development of Y'ido / Se-Mi Oh

"Oh Jesus, now here with us": literary Christology in 1970s and 1980s South Korea / Serk-bae Suh

Why performance in authoritarian Korea? / Joan Kee.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472124152

0472124153

OCLC:

1037979101