03185nam 22004575 450 99658626970331620240307104700.00-520-39570-010.1525/9780520395701(CKB)5720000000254716(DE-B1597)679471(DE-B1597)9780520395701(EXLCZ)99572000000025471620240307h20232023 fg engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPolitical Moods Film Melodrama and the Cold War in the Two Koreas /Travis WorkmanBerkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2023]©20231 online resource (272 p.)Global Korea ;40-520-39569-7 Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I North Korea -- 1 Mood and Montage in the Total Work of Art -- 2 Melodramatic Moods from Socialist Realism to Juche Realism -- 3 Fantastic Folk: Beyond Realism -- Part II South Korea -- 4 National Cinema and the Melancholy of Liberation -- 5 Realism and Melodrama in the Golden Age -- 6 Melodrama and Art Cinema -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- IndexA 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. Melodrama films dominated the North and South Korean industries in the period between liberation from Japanese colonial rule in 1945 and the hardening of dictatorship in the 1970s. The films of each industry are often read as direct reflections of Cold War and Korean War political ideologies and national historical experiences, and therefore as aesthetically and politically opposed to each other. However, Political Moods develops a comparative analysis across the Cold War divide, analyzing how films in both North and South Korea convey political and moral ideas through the sentimentality of the melodramatic mode. Travis Workman reveals that the melancholic moods of film melodrama express the somatic and social conflicts between political ideologies and excesses of affect, meaning, and historical references. These moods dramatize the tension between the language of Cold War politics and the negative affects that connect cinema to what it cannot fully represent. The result is a new way of historicizing the cinema of the two Koreas in relation to colonialism, postcolonialism, war, and nation building.Melodrama, KoreanMotion picturesKorea20th centuryPERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & CriticismbisacshMelodrama, Korean.Motion picturesPERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism.791.4309519Workman Travis, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1732897DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK996586269703316Political Moods4147888UNISA