Movie Minorities

Transnational Rights Advocacy and South Korean Cinema
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-9788-0964-2
Verlag: Rutgers University Press

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 458 g

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 gaining democratic freedoms three decades ago. 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chung, Hye Seung

Diffrient, David Scott

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Über Autor(innen)

Hye Seung Chung is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at colourado State University and author of Hollywood Asian: Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-Ethnic Performance (Temple UP, 2006), Kim Ki-duk (U. of Illinois Press, 2012), and Hollywood Diplomacy: Film Regulation, Foreign Relations, and East Asian Representations (Rutgers UP, 2020). She is the coauthor of Movie Migrations: Transnational Genre Flows and South Korean Cinema (Rutgers UP, 2015).

David Scott Diffrient is Professor of Film and Media Studies at colourado State University and author of M*A*S*H (Wayne State UP, 2008) and Omnibus Films: Theorizing Transauthorial Cinema (Edinburgh UP, 2014). He is the coauthor of Movie Migrations: Transnational Genre Flows and South Korean Cinema (Rutgers UP, 2015).