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Movie Minorities: Transnational Rights Advocacy and South Korean Cinema
Ort / Verlag
Rutgers University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Rights advocacy has become a prominent facet of South Korea's
increasingly transnational motion picture output, especially
following the 1998 presidential inauguration of Kim Dae-jung, a
former political prisoner and victim of human rights abuses who
received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000. Today it is not unusual to
see a big-budget production about the pursuit of social justice or
the protection of civil liberties contending for the top spot at
the box office. With that cultural shift has come a diversification
of film subjects, which range from undocumented workers' rights to
the sexual harassment experienced by women to high-school bullying
to the struggles among people with disabilities to gain inclusion
within a society that has transformed significantly since winning
democratic freedoms three decades ago. Combining in-depth textual
analyses of films such as Bleak Night , Okja ,
Planet of Snail , Repatriation , and
Silenced with broader historical contextualization,
Movie Minorities offers the first English-language study
of South Korean cinema's role in helping to galvanize activist
social movements across several identity-based categories.