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

Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020] ©2020

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Description 1 online resource Contents Introduction -- Post-colonial, postwar, Cold War -- Cold War cosmopolitan feminism -- Public culture -- The Après Girl : character and plot -- Film culture, sound culture : setting, cinematography, and sound -- Consumer culture and the black market : mise-en-scene -- A commitment to showmanship : spectacle -- Conclusion 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 Analysis 1950s aesthetic asia cia consumerism cosmopolitanism cultural cold war feminism film culture film style glamorous golden age cinemas han hyung mo japanese colonialism madame freedom material ties modernity popular cultures postwar years regional political alliances south korea study of film style transnational cultural history us military bases women Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Han, Hyŏng-mo, 1917-1999 -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Han, Hyŏng-mo, 1917-1999 fast Subject Motion picture producers and directors -- Korea (South) Motion pictures -- Korea -- History -- 20th century Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Korea Films, cinema. Asian history. Media studies. PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General. Motion picture producers and directors Motion pictures Motion pictures -- Social aspects Korea Korea (South) Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2019036823 ISBN 0520968980 0520296508 9780520296503 9780520968981

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