Split screen Korea: Shin Sang-ok and postwar cinema

by Chung, Steven

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Full title :Split screen Korea : Shin Sang-ok and postwar cinema / Steven Chung.

Summary

Shin Sang-ok (1926{u0096}2006) was arguably the most important Korean filmmaker of the postwar era. Over seven decades, he directed or produced nearly two hundred films, and his career took him from late-colonial Korea to postwar South and North Korea to Hollywood. In Split Screen Korea, Steven Chung illuminates the story of postwar Korean film and popular culture through the first in-depth account in English of Shin{u0092}s remarkable career. Combining close readings of a broad range of films with research on the industrial and political conditions of Korean film production, Split Screen Korea shows how cinematic styles, popular culture, and intellectual discourse bridged the divisions of postwar Korea, raising new questions about the implications of political partition.

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Publication Date:2014

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Publisher(s):University of Minnesota Press
Place of Publication:Minneapolis, Minnesota
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014

The Physical Object

Description:262 pages ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780816691333, 0816691339, 9780816691340, 0816691347
oclc:ocn856861079
LC Classification:PN1998.3.S538
Dewey Decimal:791.430233/092

Introduction: visible ruptures, invisible borders -- The century's illuminations: the enlightenment mode in Korean cinema -- Regimes within regimes: film and fashion in the Korean 1950s -- Authorship and the location of cinema: in the region of Shin films -- Melodrama and the scene of development -- "It's all fake": Shin Sang-ok's North Korean revisions -- Conclusion: post-development pictures.