Movie Minorities: Transnational Rights Advocacy and South Korean Cinema by Hye S

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Combining in-depth textual analyses of selected case studies and 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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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.

Author Biography

HYE SEUNG CHUNG is an associate professor of film and media studies at Colorado State University and the author of Hollywood Asian: Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-Ethnic Performance, Kim Ki-duk, and Hollywood Diplomacy: Film Regulation, Foreign Relations, and East Asian Representations (Rutgers University Press). She is the coauthor of Movie Migrations: Transnational Genre Flows and South Korean Cinema (Rutgers University Press).DAVID SCOTT DIFFRIENT is a professor of film and media studies at Colorado State University and the author of M*A*S*H and Omnibus Films: Theorizing Transauthorial Cinema. He is the coauthor of Movie Migrations: Transnational Genre Flows and South Korean Cinema (Rutgers University Press).

Table of Contents

A Note on the Text Introduction: "I Am a Human Being": The Question of Rights in South Korean Cinema Part I Institutional Foundations and Formal Structures1 The Rise of Rights-Advocacy Cinema in Postauthoritarian South Korea2 If You Were Me: Transnational Crossings and South Korean Omnibus Films Part II Movie Minors and Minor Cinemas3 Hell Is Other High Schoolers: Bigots, Bullies, and Teenage "Villainy" in South Korean Cinema 4 Indie Filmmaking and Queer Advocacy: Converging Identities in Leesong Hee-il's Films and Writings Part III Disability Rights in Mainstream and Minoritarian Filmmaking5 Always, Blind, and Silenced: Disability Discourses in Contemporary South Korean Cinema 6 Barrier-Free Cinema: Caring for People with Disabilities and Touching the Other in Planet of Snail Part IV Representing Prisoners of the North and South7 Beyond Torture Epistephilia: The Ethics of Encounter and Separation in Kim Dong-won's Repatriation 8 Story as Freedom or Prison? Narrative Invention and Human Rights Interventions in Camp 14: Total Control Zone Part V Migrant Worker Rights in Hybrid Documentaries9 Between Scenery and Scenario: Landscape, Narrative, and Structured Absence in a Korean Migrant Workers Documentary 10 "Powers of the False" and "Real Fiction": Migrant Workers in The City of Cranes and Other Mockumentaries Part VI Nonhuman Rights in a Posthuman World11 Animal Rights Advocacy, Holocaustal Imagery, and Interspecies Empathy in An Omnivorous Family's Dilemma and Okja Coda: "I Am (Not) a Human Being": The Question of Robot Rights in South Korean Cinema AcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

Review

"Movie Minorities addresses a gaping hole in the literature and offers an original contribution to Korean film studies. This book is groundbreaking in multiple ways." -- Dong Hoon Kim * University of Oregon, author of Eclipsed Cinema: The Film Culture of Colonial Korea *"Movie Minorities is a pleasure to read. I am thrilled that this work will introduce a number of key political, ethical, and historical categories into our understanding of contemporary Korean cinema." -- Steve Choe * author of Sovereign Violence: Ethics and South Korean Cinema in the New Millennium *"Movie Minorities addresses a gaping hole in the literature and offers an original contribution to Korean film studies. This book is groundbreaking in multiple ways." -- Dong Hoon Kim * University of Oregon, author of Eclipsed Cinema: The Film Culture of Colonial Korea *"Movie Minorities is a pleasure to read. I am thrilled that this work will introduce a number of key political, ethical, and historical categories into our understanding of contemporary Korean cinema." -- Steve Choe * author of Sovereign Violence: Ethics and South Korean Cinema in the New Millennium *

Long Description

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.

Review Quote

" Movie Minorities is a pleasure to read. I am thrilled that this work will introduce a number of key political, ethical, and historical categories into our understanding of contemporary Korean cinema."

Description for Reader

Hye Seung Chung is an associate professor of film and media studies at Colorado State University and the author of Hollywood Asian: Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-Ethnic Performance , Kim Ki-duk , and Hollywood Diplomacy: Film Regulation, Foreign Relations, and East Asian Representations (Rutgers University Press). She is the coauthor of Movie Migrations: Transnational Genre Flows and South Korean Cinema (Rutgers University Press). David Scott Diffrient is a professor of film and media studies at Colorado State University and the author of M*A*S*H and Omnibus Films: Theorizing Transauthorial Cinema . He is the coauthor of Movie Migrations: Transnational Genre Flows and South Korean Cinema (Rutgers University Press).

Details ISBN1978809646 Author David Scott Diffrient Short Title Movie Minorities Publisher Rutgers University Press Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1978809646 ISBN-13 9781978809642 Format Paperback Subtitle Transnational Rights Advocacy and South Korean Cinema Imprint Rutgers University Press Place of Publication New Brunswick NJ Country of Publication United States Pages 316 AU Release Date 2021-08-13 NZ Release Date 2021-08-13 UK Release Date 2021-08-30 DEWEY 791.43095195 Publication Date 2021-08-13 Alternative 9781978809659 Illustrations 30 b-w images, 1 table US Release Date 2021-08-13 Audience Age 18-99 Audience General We've got this

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