Introduction -- Film activism : film as a means for political activism -- Independent film : cultural production in post-authoritarian conditions -- Beating the Titanic : independent filmmakers at the helm of cultural nationalism -- Transforming activist culture : women filmmakers and new film spaces -- Film festival fever : circulation of independent films -- New cultural spaces, new sensibilities
Summary
Since 1999, South Korean films have dominated roughly 40 to 60 percent of the Korean domestic box-office, matching or even surpassing Hollywood films in popularity. Why is this, and how did it come about? In Unexpected Alliances, Young-a Park seeks to answer these questions by exploring the cultural and institutional roots of the Korean film industry's phenomenal success in the context of Korea's political transition in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The book investigates the unprecedented interplay between independent filmmakers, the state, and the mainstream film industry under the post-aut
