Literature and film in Cold War South Korea
Subtitle: freedom's frontier
By: Theodore Hughes
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780231157483; 9780231500715
Subjects: Motion pictures; Nationalism and literature; History and criticism; Korean literature; Politics in literature; Politics in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Visuality and the colonial modern: the technics of proletarian culture, nativism, modernism, and mobilization; title: Visible and invisible states: liberation, occupation, division; title: Ambivalent anticommunism: the politics of despair and the erotics of language; title: Development as devolution: overcoming Communism and the "land of excrement" incident; title: Return to the colonial present: translation, collaboration, Pan-Asianism; title: Postscript.