TY  - BOOK
AU  - Klein,Christina
TI  - Cold War cosmopolitanism: period style in 1950s Korean cinema 
SN  - 9780520968981
AV  - PN1998.3.H348 
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Oakland, California
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Han, Hyŏng-mo,
KW  - Motion picture producers and directors
KW  - Korea (South)
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Korea
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma
KW  - Corée du Sud
KW  - Cinéma
KW  - Corée
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - Films, cinema
KW  - Asian history
KW  - Media studies
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General
KW  - 1950s
KW  - aesthetic
KW  - asia
KW  - cia
KW  - consumerism
KW  - cosmopolitanism
KW  - cultural cold war
KW  - feminism
KW  - film culture
KW  - film style
KW  - glamorous
KW  - golden age cinemas
KW  - han hyung mo
KW  - japanese colonialism
KW  - madame freedom
KW  - material ties
KW  - modernity
KW  - popular cultures
KW  - postwar years
KW  - regional political alliances
KW  - south korea
KW  - study of film style
KW  - transnational cultural history
KW  - us military bases
KW  - women
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Post-colonial, postwar, Cold War -- Cold War cosmopolitan feminism -- Public culture -- The Après Girl : character and plot -- Film culture, sound culture : setting, cinematography, and sound -- Consumer culture and the black market : mise-en-scene -- A commitment to showmanship : spectacle -- Conclusion
N2  - "South Korea in the 1950s was home to a burgeoning film culture, one of the many 'Golden Age cinemas' that flourished in Asia during the postwar years. Cold War Cosmopolitanism offers a transnational cultural history of South Korean film style in this period, focusing on the works of Han Hyung-mo, director of the era's most glamorous and popular women's pictures, including the blockbuster Madame Freedom (1956). Christina Klein provides a unique approach to the study of film style, illuminating how Han's films took shape within a "free world" network of aesthetic and material ties created by the legacies of Japanese colonialism, the construction of US military bases, the waging of the cultural Cold War by the CIA, the forging of regional political alliances, and the import of popular cultures from around the world. Klein combines nuanced readings of Han's sophisticated style with careful attention to key issues of modernity--such as feminism, cosmopolitanism, and consumerism--in the first monograph devoted to this major Korean director"--
UR  - https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1f8851b
ER  -