02364nam 2200385Ia 450 99655696560331620231211172739.00-520-39438-010.1525/9780520394384(CKB)28288347100041(DE-B1597)658577(DE-B1597)9780520394384(EXLCZ)992828834710004120231101h20232023 fg engur||#||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCelluloid Democracy Cinema and Politics in Cold War South Korea /Hieyoon KimFirst edition.Berkeley, CA :University of California Press,[2023]©20231 online resource (182 pages)9780520394377 A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Celluloid Democracy tells the story of the Korean filmmakers, distributors, and exhibitors who reshaped cinema in radically empowering ways through the decades of authoritarian rule that followed Korea's liberation from Japanese occupation. Employing tactics that ranged from representing the dispossessed on the screen to redistributing state-controlled resources through bootlegging, these film workers explored ideas and practices that simultaneously challenged repressive rule and pushed the limits of the cinematic medium. Drawing on archival research, film analysis, and interviews, Hieyoon Kim examines how their work foregrounds a utopian vision of democracy where the ruled represent themselves and access resources free from state suppression. The first account of the history of film activism in post-1945 South Korea, Celluloid Democracy shows how Korean film workers during the Cold War reclaimed cinema as an ecology in which democratic discourses and practices could flourish.Motion picturesPolitical aspectsKorea (South)20th centuryMotion picturesPolitical aspectsKim Hieyoon1983-authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1448728DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK996556965603316Celluloid Democracy3644522UNISA