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dc.contributor.authorKlein, Christina
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-10 09:55:46
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T06:50:02Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T06:50:02Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier1007789
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/22399
dc.description.abstract"Han Hyung-mo was a major figure within South Korea’s Golden Age cinema. The director of Madame Freedom (1956), the most famous film of the 1950s, Han made popular films that explored women’s relationship to modernity. He was also a master stylist who introduced technological innovations and fresh ideas about film form and genre into Korean cinema. This book offers a transnational cultural history of Han’s films, one that foregrounds questions of gender and style. Han’s films embody a period style that Klein calls “Cold War cosmopolitanism.” The waging of the Cold War enmeshed South Korea within a network of ties to the Free World. Fostered by political leaders like Syngman Rhee, American institutions such as the US military and the Asia Foundation, and ordinary Koreans, these networks created channels through which material resources, liberal ideas, and cultural texts flowed into and out of Korea. Han and other cultural producers tapped into these networks to create new forms of commercial culture that meshed local concerns with foreign trends. Combining extensive archival research and in-depth analyses of individual films, Cold War Cosmopolitanism offers a fresh, interdisciplinary perspective on the waging of the cultural Cold War in Asia."
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATF Films, cinemaen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studiesen_US
dc.subject.otherCultural Cold War
dc.subject.otherAsia
dc.subject.otherKorea
dc.subject.otherCosmopolitanism
dc.subject.otherPeriod style
dc.subject.other1950s
dc.subject.otherWomen
dc.subject.otherHan Hyung-mo
dc.subject.otherGolden Age
dc.subject.otherFilm
dc.titleCold War Cosmopolitanism
dc.title.alternativePeriod Style in 1950s Korean Cinema
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1525/luminos.85
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy72f3a53e-04bb-4d73-b921-22a29d903b3b
oapen.relation.isbn9780520296503
oapen.pages321
oapen.place.publicationOakland


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