{"product_id":"the-bloomsbury-handbook-of-north-korean-cinema-9798765102824","title":"The Bloomsbury Handbook of North Korean Cinema","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis first handbook on North Korean cinema contests the assumption that North Korean film is \"unwatchable,\" in terms of both quality and accessibility, refusing to reduce North Korean cinema to political propaganda and focusing on its aesthetic forms and cultural meanings. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSince its founding in 1948, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) has played diverse roles: a Cold War communist threat to the US, the other half of a divided nation to South Korea, an ally to the Soviet Union and China, one model for anti-colonialism to national liberation movements, an exotic political and cultural anomaly in the era of globalization. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis handbook provides a solid and diverse foundation for the expanding scholarship on North Korean cinema. It is also a road map for connecting this field to broader issues in film and media studies: film history, affect and ideology, genre, and transnational cinema cultures. By connecting the worlds of North Korean cinema to broader questions in global cinema studies, this book explores the complexity of a national cinema too often reduced to a single image.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTravis Workman\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA. He is the author of \u003ci\u003ePolitical Moods: Film Melodrama and the Cold War in the Two Korea \u003c\/i\u003e(2023) and \u003ci\u003eImperial Genus: The Formation and Limits of the Human in Modern Korea and Japan \u003c\/i\u003e(2016). He is currently working on debt, neo-feudal economies, and contemporary media. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDong Hoon Kim\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema Studies at the University of Oregon, USA. His research and teaching interests include visual culture, early cinema, animation, film and media spectatorship, and East Asian film, media, and popular culture. Kim is the author of \u003ci\u003eEclipsed Cinema: The Film Culture of Colonial Korea\u003c\/i\u003e (2017). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eImmanuel Kim\u003c\/b\u003e is the Korea Foundation and Kim Renaud Professor of Korean literature and culture studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the George Washington University, USA. He is a specialist in North Korean literature, cinema, and culture. His first book \u003ci\u003eRewriting Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e (2018) explores the complex and dynamic literary culture, and his second book \u003ci\u003eLaughing North Koreans\u003c\/i\u003e (2020) is on the ways in which humor has been an integral component of everyday life.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51500457394450,"sku":"9798765102824","price":208.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9a6f8d73-3108-4d72-8a95-334dff1a5732.jpg?v=1753192159","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-bloomsbury-handbook-of-north-korean-cinema-9798765102824","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}