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Cinema under National Reconstruction
State Censorship and South Korea’s Cold War Film Culture
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eBook - ePub
Cinema under National Reconstruction
State Censorship and South Korea’s Cold War Film Culture
About this book
Cinema under National Reconstruction 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 The Stray Bullet (1961), Ha Kil-jong's The March of the Fools (1975), and Yi Chang-ho's Declaration of Fools (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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Note on Text
- Chronology
- A List of Agencies and Acronyms
- Introduction: Archival Revisionism and New Korean Film Historiography
- 1. Fending off Darkness, Uplifting National Cinema: Korean Film Censorship and The Stray Bullet
- 2. From Blackboard Jungle to The Teahouse of the August Moon: Censoring Hollywood in Postcolonial Korea
- 3. Myths of Martyrs and Heroes in a Godless Land: Interagency Regulation of 1960s Anticommunist Films
- 4. Cinematic Censorship as Sentimental Education: Indoctrinating Gaiety as National Emotion in Yushin-Era Youth Comedies
- 5. Censors as Audiences and Vice Versa: Sex, Politics, and Labor in 1981
- 6. Beyond Oral Histories and Trade Legends: A Bourdieusian-Foucauldian Deconstruction of Anti-Censorship Myths
- Epilogue: Media Ratings, the End of Censorship?
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author