Rights advocacy has become a prominent facet of South Korea’s increasingly transnational motion picture output, and today films about political prisoners, undocumented workers, and people with disabilities attract mainstream attention. Movie Minorities offers the first English-language study of Korean cinema’s role in helping to galvanize activist social movements across these and other identity-based categories.
Rights advocacy has become a prominent facet of South Korea’s increasingly transnational motion picture output, and today films about political prisoners, undocumented workers, and people with disabilities attract mainstream attention. Movie Minorities offers the first English-language study of Korean cinema’s role in helping to galvanize activist social movements across these and other identity-based categories.
Hye Seung Chung is an associate professor of film and media studies at Colorado State University and the author of Hollywood Asian: Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-Ethnic Performance, Kim Ki-duk, and Hollywood Diplomacy: Film Regulation, Foreign Relations, and East Asian Representations (Rutgers University Press). She is the coauthor of Movie Migrations: Transnational Genre Flows and South Korean Cinema (Rutgers University Press). David Scott Diffrient is a professor of film and media studies at Colorado State University and the author of M*A*S*H and Omnibus Films: Theorizing Transauthorial Cinema. He is the coauthor of Movie Migrations: Transnational Genre Flows and South Korean Cinema (Rutgers University Press).
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A Note on the Text Introduction: I Am a Human Being : The Question of Rights in South Korean Cinema Part I Institutional Foundations and Formal Structures 1 The Rise of Rights-Advocacy Cinema in Postauthoritarian South Korea 2 If You Were Me: Transnational Crossings and South Korean Omnibus Films Part II 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 Writings Part III Disability Rights in Mainstream and Minoritarian Filmmaking 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 IV Representing Prisoners of the North and South 7 Beyond Torture Epistephilia: The Ethics of Encounter and Separation in Kim Dong-won s Repatriation 8 Story as Freedom or Prison? Narrative Invention and Human Rights Interventions in Camp 14: Total Control Zone Part V 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 VI Nonhuman Rights in a Posthuman World 11 Animal Rights Advocacy, Holocaustal Imagery, and Interspecies Empathy in An Omnivorous Family s Dilemma and Okja Coda: I Am (Not) a Human Being : The Question of Robot Rights in South Korean Cinema Acknowledgments Notes Index
A Note on the Text Introduction: I Am a Human Being : The Question of Rights in South Korean Cinema Part I Institutional Foundations and Formal Structures 1 The Rise of Rights-Advocacy Cinema in Postauthoritarian South Korea 2 If You Were Me: Transnational Crossings and South Korean Omnibus Films Part II 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 Writings Part III Disability Rights in Mainstream and Minoritarian Filmmaking 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 IV Representing Prisoners of the North and South 7 Beyond Torture Epistephilia: The Ethics of Encounter and Separation in Kim Dong-won s Repatriation 8 Story as Freedom or Prison? Narrative Invention and Human Rights Interventions in Camp 14: Total Control Zone Part V 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 VI Nonhuman Rights in a Posthuman World 11 Animal Rights Advocacy, Holocaustal Imagery, and Interspecies Empathy in An Omnivorous Family s Dilemma and Okja Coda: I Am (Not) a Human Being : The Question of Robot Rights in South Korean Cinema Acknowledgments Notes Index
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