Movie Minorities Transnational Rights Advocacy and South Korean Cinema
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9781978809642 |
Publisher: | Rutgers University Press |
Imprint: | Rutgers University Press |
Pub date: | 13 Aug 2021 |
DEWEY: | 791.43095195 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | ix, 301 |
Weight: | 454g |
Height: | 235mm |
Width: | 156mm |
Spine width: | 20mm |