Movie Minorities : Transnational Rights Advocacy and South Korean Cinema Hardback
by Hye Seung Chung, David Scott Diffrient
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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.
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- Pages:316 pages, 30 b-w images, 1 table
- Publisher:Rutgers University Press
- Publication Date:13/08/2021
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- ISBN:9781978809659
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:316 pages, 30 b-w images, 1 table
- Publisher:Rutgers University Press
- Publication Date:13/08/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9781978809659