Movie Minorities : Transnational Rights Advocacy and South Korean Cinema
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| Title: | Movie Minorities : Transnational Rights Advocacy and South Korean Cinema |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Authors: | Hye Seung Chung, David Scott Diffrient |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Human rights in motion pictures, Minorities in motion pictures, Motion pictures--Korea (South)--History--20th century, Motion pictures--Korea (South)--History--21st century |
| Categories: | PERFORMING ARTS / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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. |
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| ISBN: | 9781978809642 9781978809659 9781978809666 9781978809680 |
