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Author Klein, Christina, 1963- author.

Title Cold War cosmopolitanism : period style in 1950s Korean cinema / Christina Klein.

Publication Info. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- Post-colonial, postwar, Cold War -- Cold War cosmopolitan feminism -- Public culture -- The Après Girl : character and plot -- Film culture, sound culture : setting, cinematography, and sound -- Consumer culture and the black market : mise-en-scene -- A commitment to showmanship : spectacle -- Conclusion.
Summary "South Korea in the 1950s was home to a burgeoning film culture, one of the many 'Golden Age cinemas' that flourished in Asia during the postwar years. Cold War Cosmopolitanism offers a transnational cultural history of South Korean film style in this period, focusing on the works of Han Hyung-mo, director of the era's most glamorous and popular women's pictures, including the blockbuster Madame Freedom (1956). Christina Klein provides a unique approach to the study of film style, illuminating how Han's films took shape within a "free world" network of aesthetic and material ties created by the legacies of Japanese colonialism, the construction of US military bases, the waging of the cultural Cold War by the CIA, the forging of regional political alliances, and the import of popular cultures from around the world. Klein combines nuanced readings of Han's sophisticated style with careful attention to key issues of modernity--such as feminism, cosmopolitanism, and consumerism--in the first monograph devoted to this major Korean director"-- Provided by publisher.
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Language English.
Access Open Access EbpS
Subject Han, Hyng-mo, 1917-1999 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Han, Hyng-mo, 1917-1999
Motion picture producers and directors -- Korea (South)
Motion pictures -- Korea -- History -- 20th century.
Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Korea.
Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma -- Corée du Sud.
Cinéma -- Corée -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
Cinéma -- Aspect social -- Corée.
Films, cinema.
Asian history.
Media studies.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General.
Motion picture producers and directors
Motion pictures
Motion pictures -- Social aspects
Korea
Korea (South)
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Indexed Term 1950s.
aesthetic.
asia.
cia.
consumerism.
cosmopolitanism.
cultural cold war.
feminism.
film culture.
film style.
glamorous.
golden age cinemas.
han hyung mo.
japanese colonialism.
madame freedom.
material ties.
modernity.
popular cultures.
postwar years.
regional political alliances.
south korea.
study of film style.
transnational cultural history.
us military bases.
women.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Other Form: Print version: Klein, Christina, 1963- Cold War cosmopolitanism Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020] 9780520296503 (DLC) 2019036822
ISBN 0520968980
0520296508
9780520296503
9780520968981 (electronic bk.)
Standard No. 10.1525/luminos.85 doi

 
    
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