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Cold War cosmopolitanism : period style in 1950s Korean cinema / Christina Klein.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, c2020Description: 299 p. : ill., portraits, maps ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780520296503
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 791.430233092 K639c
Summary: "South Korea in the 1950s was home to a burgeoning film culture, one of the many 'Golden Age cinemas' that flourished in Asia during the postwar years. Cold War Cosmopolitanism offers a transnational cultural history of South Korean film style in this period, focusing on the works of Han Hyung-mo, director of the era's most glamorous and popular women's pictures, including the blockbuster Madame Freedom (1956). Christina Klein provides a unique approach to the study of film style, illuminating how Han's films took shape within a "free world" network of aesthetic and material ties created by the legacies of Japanese colonialism, the construction of US military bases, the waging of the cultural Cold War by the CIA, the forging of regional political alliances, and the import of popular cultures from around the world. Klein combines nuanced readings of Han's sophisticated style with careful attention to key issues of modernity-such as feminism, cosmopolitanism, and consumerism--in the first monograph devoted to this major Korean director"-- Provided by publisher.
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Books Books Library, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Window on Korea Non-fiction 791.430233092 K639c (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2020 01 Available WOK000815
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-288) and index.

"South Korea in the 1950s was home to a burgeoning film culture, one of the many 'Golden Age cinemas' that flourished in Asia during the postwar years. Cold War Cosmopolitanism offers a transnational cultural history of South Korean film style in this period, focusing on the works of Han Hyung-mo, director of the era's most glamorous and popular women's pictures, including the blockbuster Madame Freedom (1956). Christina Klein provides a unique approach to the study of film style, illuminating how Han's films took shape within a "free world" network of aesthetic and material ties created by the legacies of Japanese colonialism, the construction of US military bases, the waging of the cultural Cold War by the CIA, the forging of regional political alliances, and the import of popular cultures from around the world. Klein combines nuanced readings of Han's sophisticated style with careful attention to key issues of modernity-such as feminism, cosmopolitanism, and consumerism--in the first monograph devoted to this major Korean director"-- Provided by publisher.

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