Movie Minorities: Transnational Rights Advocacy and South Korean Cinema
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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.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1978809654
ISBN13:9781978809659
Release Date:August 2021
Publisher:Rutgers University Press
Length:316 Pages
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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