Movie Minorities : : Transnational Rights Advocacy and South Korean Cinema / / David Scott Diffrient, Hye Seung Chung.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2021
• VerfasserIn: Chung, Hye Seung,; Diffrient, David Scott,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (252 p.) :; 30 b-w images, 1 table

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- A Note on the Text -- Introduction “I Am a Human Being” The Question of Rights in South Korean Cinema -- Part 1 Institutional Foundations and Formal Structures -- 1 The Rise of Rights-Advocacy Cinema in Postauthoritarian South Korea -- 2 If You Were Me -- Part 2 Movie Minors and Minor Cinemas -- 3 Hell Is Other High Schoolers. Bigots, Bullies, and Teenage “Villainy” in South Korean Cinema -- 4 Indie Filmmaking and Queer Advocacy. Converging Identities in Leesong Hee-il’s Films and Writing -- 5 Always, Blind, and Silenced Disability Discourses in Contemporary South Korean Cinema -- 6 Barrier-Free Cinema Caring for People with Disabilities and Touching the Other in Planet of Snail -- Part 4 Representing Prisoners of the North and South -- 7 Beyond Torture Epistephilia. The Ethics of Encounter and Separation in Kim Dong-won’s Repatriatio -- 8 Story as Freedom or Prison? Narrative Invention and Human Rights Interventions in Camp 14: Total Control Zone -- Part 5 Migrant Worker Rights in Hybrid Documentaries -- 9 Between Scenery and Scenario Landscape, Narrative, and Structured Absence in a Korean Migrant Workers Documentary -- 10 “Powers of the False” and “Real Fiction” Migrant Workers in The City of Cranes and Other Mockumentaries -- Part 6 Nonhuman Rights in a Posthuman World -- 11 Animal Rights Advocacy, Holocaustal Imagery, and Interspecies Empathy in An Omnivorous Family’s Dilemma and O -- Coda “I Am (Not) a Human Being” The Question of Robot Rights in South Korean Cinema -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index