Movie minorities :transnational rights advocacy and South Korean cinema

  • 作者: Chung, Hye Seung,
  • 其他作者: Diffrient, David Scott,
  • 出版:
  • 稽核項: ix, 301 pages :illustrations ;25 cm.
  • 標題: Motion pictures , Motion pictures Korea (South) -- History -- 20th century. , Minorities in motion pictures. , Human rights in motion pictures. , Motion pictures Korea (South) -- History -- 21st century. , History
  • ISBN: 1978809646 , 9781978809642
  • ISBN: 9781978809666 , 9781978809673 , 9781978809680
  • 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-286) and index.
  • 摘要: "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"--
  • 系統號: 005335542
  • 資料類型: 圖書
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