Movie Minorities

Transnational Rights Advocacy and South Korean Cinema

Hye Seung Chung, David Scott Diffrient (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

316 Seiten

2021
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-0965-9 (ISBN)

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Combining in-depth textual analyses of selected case studies and broader historical contextualization, Movie Minorities offers the first English-language study of South Korean cinema's role in helping to galvanize activist social movements across several identity-based categories.

Rights advocacy has become a prominent facet of South Korea’s increasingly transnational motion picture output, especially following the 1998 presidential inauguration of Kim Dae-jung, a former political prisoner and victim of human rights abuses who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000. Today it is not unusual to see a big-budget production about the pursuit of social justice or the protection of civil liberties contending for the top spot at the box office. With that cultural shift has come a diversification of film subjects, which range from undocumented workers’ rights to the sexual harassment experienced by women to high-school bullying to the struggles among people with disabilities to gain inclusion within a society that has transformed significantly since winning democratic freedoms three decades ago. Combining in-depth textual analyses of films such as Bleak Night, Okja, Planet of Snail, Repatriation, and Silenced with broader historical contextualization, Movie Minorities offers the first English-language study of South Korean cinema’s role in helping to galvanize activist social movements across several identity-based categories.

HYE SEUNG CHUNG is an associate professor of film and media studies at Colorado State University and the author of Hollywood Asian: Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-Ethnic Performance, Kim Ki-duk, and Hollywood Diplomacy: Film Regulation, Foreign Relations, and East Asian Representations (Rutgers University Press). She is the coauthor of Movie Migrations: Transnational Genre Flows and South Korean Cinema (Rutgers University Press). DAVID SCOTT DIFFRIENT is a professor of film and media studies at Colorado State University and the author of M*A*S*H and Omnibus Films: Theorizing Transauthorial Cinema. He is the coauthor of Movie Migrations: Transnational Genre Flows and South Korean Cinema (Rutgers University Press).

A Note on the Text

Introduction: “I Am a Human Being”: The Question of Rights in South Korean Cinema

Part I Institutional Foundations and Formal Structures

1 The Rise of Rights-Advocacy Cinema in Postauthoritarian South Korea

2 If You Were Me: Transnational Crossings and South Korean Omnibus Films

Part II Movie Minors and Minor Cinemas

3 Hell Is Other High Schoolers: Bigots, Bullies, and Teenage “Villainy” in South Korean Cinema

4 Indie Filmmaking and Queer Advocacy: Converging Identities in Leesong Hee-il’s Films and Writings

Part III Disability Rights in Mainstream and Minoritarian Filmmaking

5 Always, Blind, and Silenced: Disability Discourses in Contemporary South Korean Cinema

6 Barrier-Free Cinema: Caring for People with Disabilities and Touching the Other in Planet of Snail

Part IV Representing Prisoners of the North and South

7 Beyond Torture Epistephilia: The Ethics of Encounter and Separation in Kim Dong-won’s Repatriation

8 Story as Freedom or Prison? Narrative Invention and Human Rights Interventions in Camp 14: Total Control Zone

Part V Migrant Worker Rights in Hybrid Documentaries

9 Between Scenery and Scenario: Landscape, Narrative, and Structured Absence in a Korean Migrant Workers Documentary

10 “Powers of the False” and “Real Fiction”: Migrant Workers in The City of Cranes and Other Mockumentaries

Part VI Nonhuman Rights in a Posthuman World

11 Animal Rights Advocacy, Holocaustal Imagery, and Interspecies Empathy in An Omnivorous Family’s Dilemma and Okja

Coda: “I Am (Not) a Human Being”: The Question of Robot Rights in South Korean Cinema

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.08.2021
Zusatzinfo	30 b-w images, 1 table
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	476 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-9788-0965-4 / 1978809654
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-0965-9 / 9781978809659
Zustand	Neuware