Movie Minorities : Transnational Rights Advocacy and South Korean Cinema, Pap...

Movie Minorities : Transnational Rights Advocacy and South Korean Cinema, Paperback by Chung, Hye Seung; Diffrient, David Scott, ISBN 1978809646, ISBN-13 9781978809642, Brand New, Free shipping in the USThe authors explore the role of South Korean film in solidifying social movements within identity-based categories while universalizing the experiences of different activist communities and transnationalizing Korean sentiments about issues related to human rights. They discuss the origins of rights-advocacy cinema in South Korea from the underground independent films of the 1980s to the human rights films of the 1990s and beyond; If You Were Me as an example of a multidirector omnibus film; the theme of school violence in South Korean films; queer advocacy in Leesong Hee-il's films and writings; emerging trends in mainstream cultural productions, particularly the disability-themed genre films Always, Blind, and Silenced; an independent documentary about disabilities, Planet of Snail; representations of prisoners’ rights in Kim Dong-won's Repatriation and Camp 14: Total Control Zone; migrant worker rights in hybrid documentaries, particularly Scenery and The City of Cranes; animal rights advocacy in An Omnivorous Family's Dilemma and Okja; and robot rights in South Korean cinema. Annotation ©2021 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()