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Korean Film and History
Hyunseon Lee, Hyunseon Lee
- 288 pages
- English
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Korean Film and History
Hyunseon Lee, Hyunseon Lee
About This Book
Cinema has become a battleground upon which history is madeâa major mass medium of the twentieth century dealing with history. The re-enactments of historical events in film straddle reality and fantasy, documentary and fiction, representation and performance, entertainment and education. This interdisciplinary book examines the relationship between film and history and the links between historical research and filmic (re-)presentations of history with special reference to South Korean cinema.
As with all national film industries, Korean cinema functions as a medium of inventing national history and identity, and also establishing their legitimacyâin both forgetting the past and remembering history. Korean films also play a part in forging cultural collective memory. Korea as a colonised and divided nation clearly adopted different approaches to the filmic depiction of history compared to colonial powers such as Western or Japanese cinema. The Colonial Period (1910â1945) and Korean War (1950â1953) draw particular attention as they have been major topics shaping the narrative of nation in North and South Korean films.
Exploring the changing modes, impacts and functions of screen images dealing with history in Korean cinema, this book will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Korean history, film, media and cultural studies.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Cinematic Battlefield of Memory, Imagination, and Narrative of the Past: A Preface to Korean Film and History
- Part I Issues, Positions and Approaches to Historical Memory
- Part II Korean Cinema and the Colonial Period
- Part III How to Remember the Korean War, Its Origin and Aftermath
- Part IV Archiving Contact Zones
- Index