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Cinema Under National Reconstruction: State Censorship and South Korea's Cold War Film Culture

Cinema Under National Reconstruction: State Censorship and South Korea's Cold War Film Culture

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Film StudiesGeneral Political ScienceKorean History

ISBN10: 1978838719
ISBN13: 9781978838710
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: Nov 15 2024
Pages: 252
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Cinema under National Reconstruction calls for a revisionist understanding of state film censorship during successive Cold War military regimes in South Korea (1961-1988). Drawing upon primary documents from the Korean Film Archive's digitized database and framing South Korean film censorship from a transnational perspective, Hye Seung Chung makes the case that, while political oppression/repression existed inside and outside the film industry during this period, film censorship was not simply a tool for authoritarian dictatorship. Through such case studies as Yu Hyun-mok's The Stray Bullet (1961), Ha Kil-jong's The March of the Fools (1975), and Yi Chang-ho's Declaration of Fools (1983), the author defines censorship as a dialogical process of cultural negotiations wherein the state, the film industry, and the public fight out a battle over the definitions and functions of national cinema. In the context of Cold War Korea, one cannot fully understand or construct film history without reassessing censorship as a productive feedback system where both state regulators and filmmakers played active roles in shaping the new narrative or sentiment of the nation on the big screen.

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