{"product_id":"9781978838710-cinema-under-national-reconstruction","title":"Cinema Under National Reconstruction","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eState Censorship and South Korea's Cold War Film Culture\u003cbr\u003eDrawing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCinema under National Reconstruction\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Stray Bullet\u003c\/i\u003e (1961), Ha Kil-jong’s \u003ci\u003eThe March of the Fools\u003c\/i\u003e (1975), and Yi Chang-ho’s \u003ci\u003eDeclaration of Fools\u003c\/i\u003e (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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54826519593334,"sku":"9781978838710","price":36.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_37475788_651c537c-c4e1-4b5c-9a63-efb631df4b15.jpg?v=1762074395","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781978838710-cinema-under-national-reconstruction","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}