North Korea’s Nuclear Cinema

Simulation and Neoliberal Politics in the Two Koreas

Elizabeth Shim (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-25948-5 (ISBN)

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North Korea’s Nuclear Cinema examines why and how North Korea has transitioned to an image-based nuclear power in the changing context of a post-Cold War world. What exactly is the North Korean nuclear threat? Why is North Korea engaging in hostilities when its erstwhile adversaries have offered a diplomatic exit ramp? Chapter by chapter, it explains how North Korea’s footage-based nuclear politics is presented as military practice, but ultimately traces its lineage to cinematic propaganda, a tradition that blurs the line between image and reality.

By leveraging cinematic resources in place of physical military mobilization, North Korea continues to move international political actors with the mere suggestion of nuclear power. At a moment when North Korea is enhancing media representation, this book dives into a timely exploration of how the regime is projecting state power as South Korean televisual media challenges the North Korean communist spectacle that has held a captive audience for decades.

Elizabeth Shim was a Center for Strategic and International Studies Korea Chair Nextgen Scholar, is currently Senior Principal at Haven Tower Group and previously United Press International’s Chief Asia Writer. She has written for The Associated Press, USA Today, the Toronto Star and the South China Morning Post and is co-author of The Korean War in Color (2011).

Chapter 1: The Cold War
North Korea’s ideology of ‘Juche’
Contemporary geopolitics
Inter-Korea relations
Chapter 2: North Korea weapons as simulacra
Deterrence as simulation
Hyperreality and the North Korean state
Chapter 3: North Korea cinema and television
Kim Jong Il, ‘Genius of Film’
21st-century television, digital media and YouTube
Chapter 4: The rise of South Korean pop culture
Global media flows
The ‘Korean Wave’ in the post-Cold War context
Pop culture in North Korea
Chapter 5: Transnational Unification
Digital debris and North Korea’s markets
Corruption
Simulacra and migration

Erscheinungsdatum	31.10.2024
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-350-25948-9 / 1350259489
ISBN-13	978-1-350-25948-5 / 9781350259485
Zustand	Neuware