Literature and film in Cold War South Korea : freedom's frontier /

Hughes, Theodore H.

Literature and film in Cold War South Korea : freedom's frontier / Theodore Hughes. - New York : Columbia University Press, c2012. - xi, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Visuality and the colonial modern: the technics of proletarian culture, nativism, modernism, and mobilization -- Visible and invisible states: liberation, occupation, division -- Ambivalent anticommunism: the politics of despair and the erotics of language -- Development as devolution: overcoming Communism and the "land of excrement" incident -- Return to the colonial present: translation, collaboration, Pan-Asianism -- Postscript.

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Korean literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Politics in literature.
Nationalism and literature--Korea (South)
Politics in motion pictures.

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