{"product_id":"cinema-under-national-reconstruction-state-censorship-and-south-koreas-cold-war-film-culture-9781978838710","title":"Cinema Under National Reconstruction: State Censorship and South Korea's Cold War Film Culture","description":"\u003ci\u003eCinema under National Reconstruction\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Stray Bullet\u003c\/i\u003e (1961), Ha Kil-jong's \u003ci\u003eThe March of the Fools\u003c\/i\u003e (1975), and Yi Chang-ho's \u003ci\u003eDeclaration of Fools\u003c\/i\u003e (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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHYE SEUNG CHUNG\u003c\/b\u003e is the co-author of \u003ci\u003eMovie Minorities: Transnational Rights Advocacy and South Korean Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e (Rutgers University Press, 2021) and \u003ci\u003eMovie Migrations: Transnational Genre Flows and South Korean Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e (Rutgers University Press, 2015), and the author of \u003ci\u003eHollywood Diplomacy: Film Regulation, Foreign Relations, and East Asian Representations\u003c\/i\u003e (Rutgers University Press, 2020), \u003ci\u003eHollywood Asian: Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-Ethnic Performance\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eKim Ki-duk\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50869472198930,"sku":"9781978838710","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_63b4dfb0-c6e7-4752-b3ee-8163d0b3ed40.jpg?v=1737759026","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/cinema-under-national-reconstruction-state-censorship-and-south-koreas-cold-war-film-culture-9781978838710","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}