{"product_id":"cinema-under-national-reconstruction-hye-seung-chung-9781978838710","title":"Cinema Under National Reconstruction: State Censorship and South Korea's Cold War Film Culture","description":"\u003ci\u003eCinema under National Reconstruction\u003c\/i\u003e calls for a revisionist understanding of state film censorship during successive Cold War military regimes in South Korea (1961-1988). Drawing upon primary documents from the Korean Film Archive's digitized database and framing South Korean film censorship from a transnational perspective, Hye Seung Chung makes the case that, while political oppression\/repression existed inside and outside the film industry during this period, film censorship was not simply a tool for authoritarian dictatorship. Through such case studies as Yu Hyun-mok's \u003ci\u003eThe Stray Bullet\u003c\/i\u003e (1961), Ha Kil-jong's \u003ci\u003eThe March of the Fools\u003c\/i\u003e (1975), and Yi Chang-ho's \u003ci\u003eDeclaration of Fools\u003c\/i\u003e (1983), the author defines censorship as a dialogical process of cultural negotiations wherein the state, the film industry, and the public fight out a battle over the definitions and functions of national cinema. In the context of Cold War Korea, one cannot fully understand or construct film history without reassessing censorship as a productive feedback system where both state regulators and filmmakers played active roles in shaping the new narrative or sentiment of the nation on the big screen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hye Seung Chung\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1978838719\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781978838710\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 230\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Hye Seung Chung","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46140913221887,"sku":"9781978838710","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_027c25ea-6aae-488d-a2ef-a6ec15a714c5.jpg?v=1726597390","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cinema-under-national-reconstruction-hye-seung-chung-9781978838710","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}