Cinema Under National Reconstruction: State Censorship and South Korea's Cold War Film Culture

by Hye Seung Chung

Cinema under National Reconstruction calls for a revisionist understanding of state film censorship during successive Cold War military regimes in South Korea (1961-1988). Drawing upon primary documents from the Korean Film Archive's digitized database and framing South Korean film censorship from a transnational perspective, Hye Seung Chung makes the case that, while political oppression/repression existed inside and outside the film industry...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978838727
• ISBN13: 9781978838727
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 252 Pages