![Movie Minorities](https://img.perlego.com/book-covers/3862745/9781978809680_300_450.webp)
Movie Minorities
Transnational Rights Advocacy and South Korean Cinema
Hye Seung Chung,David Scott Diffrient
- 252 pages
- English
- PDF
- Disponible sur iOS et Android
Movie Minorities
Transnational Rights Advocacy and South Korean Cinema
Hye Seung Chung,David Scott Diffrient
Ă propos de ce livre
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.
Foire aux questions
Informations
Table des matiĂšres
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- A Note on the Text
- Introduction: âI Am a Human Beingâ: The Question of Rights in South Korean Cinema
- Part I. Institutional Foundations and Formal Structures
- Part II. Movie Minors and Minor Cinemas
- Part III. Disability Rights in Mainstream and Minoritarian Filmmaking
- Part IV. Representing Prisoners of the North and South
- Part V. Migrant Worker Rights in Hybrid Documentaries
- Part VI. Nonhuman Rights in a Posthuman World
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- About the Authors