{"product_id":"movie-minorities-hye-seung-chung-9781978809642","title":"Movie Minorities: Transnational Rights Advocacy and South Korean Cinema","description":"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 \u003ci\u003eBleak Night\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOkja\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePlanet of Snail\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRepatriation\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSilenced\u003c\/i\u003e with broader historical contextualization, \u003ci\u003eMovie Minorities\u003c\/i\u003e offers the first English-language study of South Korean cinema's role in helping to galvanize activist social movements across several identity-based categories. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hye Seung Chung, David Scott Diffrient\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1978809646\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781978809642\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 08\/13\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 316\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.13h x 6.06w x 0.79d","brand":"Hye Seung Chung","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43993491177727,"sku":"9781978809642","price":40.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_aa7e5f1b-4aa4-4ba4-9391-d06c28be4be8.jpg?v=1683324631","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/movie-minorities-hye-seung-chung-9781978809642","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}