Movie Minorities : : Transnational Rights Advocacy and South Korean Cinema / / David Scott Diffrient, Hye Seung Chung.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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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