Cultures Of Yusin

Cultures Of Yusin Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Cultures Of Yusin book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.

Cultures of Yusin

Author : Youngju Ryu
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780472053964

Get Book

Cultures of Yusin by Youngju Ryu Pdf

Cultures of Yusin examines the turbulent and yet deeply formative years of Park Chung Hee’s rule in South Korea, focusing on the so-called Yusin era (1972–79). Beginning with the constitutional change that granted dictatorial powers to the president and ending with his assassination, Yusin was a period of extreme political repression coupled with widespread mobilization of the citizenry towards the statist gospel of modernization and development. While much has been written about the political and economic contours of this period, the rich complexity of its cultural production remains obscure. This edited volume brings together a wide range of scholars to explore literature, film, television, performance, music, and architecture, as well as practices of urban and financial planning, consumption, and homeownership. Examining the plural forms of culture’s relationship to state power, the authors illuminate the decade of the 1970s in South Korea and offer an essential framework for understanding contemporary Korean society.

Spirit Power

Author : Heonik Kwon,Jun Hwan Park
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780823299935

Get Book

Spirit Power by Heonik Kwon,Jun Hwan Park Pdf

Spirit Power explores the manifestation of the American Century in Korean history with a focus on religious culture. It looks back on the encounter with American missionary power from the late nineteenth century, and the long political struggles against the country’s indigenous popular religious heritage during the colonial and postcolonial eras. The book brings an anthropology of religion into the field of Cold War history. In particular, it investigates how Korea’s shamanism has assimilated symbolic properties of American power into its realm of ritual efficacy in the form of the spirit of General Douglas MacArthur. The book considers this process in dialog with the work of Yim Suk-jay, a prominent Korean anthropologist who saw that a radically cosmopolitan and democratic world vision is embedded in Korea’s enduring shamanism tradition.

Celluloid Democracy

Author : Hieyoon Kim
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 9780520394377

Get Book

Celluloid Democracy by Hieyoon Kim Pdf

"Korean filmmakers, distributors, and exhibitors reshaped cinema in radically empowering ways amid political turbulence from liberation through the decades of military rule (1945-1987). With acts ranging from making films that brought the dispossessed to the screen to bootlegging as an effort to redistribute resources under the state's control, they explored ideas and practices that expanded the definition of democracy and pushed the limits of the cinematic medium. Drawing on archival research, film analysis, and interviews, Hieyoon Kim shows how their work foregrounds a utopian vision of democracy in which the ruled could represent themselves and exercise their rights to access resources free from state suppression. As the first account of the history of film activism in post-1945 South Korea, Celluloid Democracy shows how Korean film workers during the Cold War reclaimed cinema as an ecology in which democratic discourses and practices could flourish"--

Cine-Mobility

Author : Han Sang Kim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684176618

Get Book

Cine-Mobility by Han Sang Kim Pdf

In 1916, a group of Korean farmers and their children gathered to watch a film depicting the enthronement of the Japanese emperor. For this screening, a unit of the colonial government’s news agency brought a projector and generator by train to their remote rural town. Before the formation of commercial moviegoing culture for colonial audiences in rural Korean towns, many films were sent to such towns and villages as propaganda. The colonial authorities, as well as later South Korean postcolonial state authorities, saw film as the most effective medium for disseminating their political messages. In Cine-Mobility, Han Sang Kim argues that the force of propaganda films in Korea was derived primarily not from their messages but from the new mobility of the viewing position. From the first film shot in Korea in 1901 through early internet screen cultures in late 1990s South Korea, Cine-Mobility explores the association between cinematic media and transportation mobility, not only in diverse and discrete forms such as railroads, motorways, automobiles, automation, and digital technologies, but also in connection with the newly established rules and restrictions and the new culture of mobility, including changes in gender dynamics, that accompanied it.

Protest in the Vietnam War Era

Author : Alexander Sedlmaier
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030810504

Get Book

Protest in the Vietnam War Era by Alexander Sedlmaier Pdf

This book assesses the emergence and transformation of global protest movements during the Vietnam War era. It explores the relationship between protest focused on the war and other emancipatory and revolutionary struggles, moving beyond existing scholarship to examine the myriad interlinked protest issues and mobilisations around the globe during the Indochina Wars. Bringing together scholars working from a range of geographical, historiographical and methodological perspectives, the volume offers a new framework for understanding the history of wartime protest. The chapters are organised around the social movements from the three main geopolitical regions of the world during the 1960s and early 1970s: the core capitalist countries of the so-called first world, the socialist bloc and the Global South. The final section of the book then focuses on international organisations that explicitly sought to bridge and unite solidarity and protest around the world. In an era of persistent military conflict, the book provides timely contributions to the question of what war does to protest movements and what protest movements do to war.

Revisiting Minjung

Author : Sunyoung Park
Publisher : Perspectives on Contemporary K
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472054121

Get Book

Revisiting Minjung by Sunyoung Park Pdf

Foremost scholars of 1980s Korea revisit the current perspectives on this pivotal period, expanding the horizons of Korean cultural studies by reassessing old conventions and adding new narratives

Entrepreneurial Seoulite

Author : Mihye Cho
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780472054169

Get Book

Entrepreneurial Seoulite by Mihye Cho Pdf

A lucid narration of post-financial crisis urbanism in Seoul and the vivid experiences of living through the city in transition

Banal Security

Author : Timothy Gitzen
Publisher : Helsinki University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789523690837

Get Book

Banal Security by Timothy Gitzen Pdf

The decades-long fear of South Korean national destruction has routinized national security and the sense of threat. In present day South Korea, national security includes not only war and the military, but national unity, public health, and the family. As a result, queer Koreans have become a target as their bodies are thought to harbor deadly viruses and are thus seen as carriers of diseases. The prevailing narrative already sees being queer as a threat to traditional family and marriage. By claiming that queer Koreans disrupt military readiness and unit cohesion, that threat is extended to the entire population. Queer Koreans are enveloped by the banality of security, treated as threats, while also being overlooked as part of the nation. What does it mean to be perceived as a national threat simply based on who you would like to sleep with? In their desire to be seen as citizens who support the safety and security of the nation, queer Koreans placate a patriarchal and national authority that is responsible for their continued marginalization. At the same time, they are also creating spaces to protect themselves from the security measures and technologies directed against them. Taking readers from police stations and the galleries of the Constitutional Court to queer activist offices and pride festivals, Banal Security explores how queer Koreans participate in their own securitization, demonstrates how security weaves through daily life in ways that oppress queer Koreans, and highlights the work of queer activists to address that oppression. In doing so, queer Koreans challenge not only the contours of national security in South Korea, but global entanglements of security.

Korean Families Yesterday and Today

Author : Hyunjoon Park,Hyeyoung Woo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Families
ISBN : 9780472054381

Get Book

Korean Families Yesterday and Today by Hyunjoon Park,Hyeyoung Woo Pdf

Twelve chapters, portraying diverse aspects of the contemporary Korean families and showing how they have come to have their current shapes

Mediating the South Korean Other

Author : David C. Oh
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472055456

Get Book

Mediating the South Korean Other by David C. Oh Pdf

Multiculturalism in Korea formed in the context of its neoliberal, global aspirations, its postcolonial legacy with Japan, and its subordinated neocolonial relationship with the United States. The Korean ethnoscape and mediascape produce a complex understanding of difference that cannot be easily reduced to racism or ethnocentrism. Indeed the Korean word, injongchabyeol, often translated as racism, refers to discrimination based on any kind of “human category.” Explaining Korea’s relationship to difference and its practices of othering, including in media culture, requires new language and nuance in English-language scholarship. This collection brings together leading and emerging scholars of multiculturalism in Korean media culture to examine mediated constructions of the “other,” taking into account the nation’s postcolonial and neocolonial relationships and its mediated construction of self. “Anthrocategorism,” a more nuanced translation of injongchabyeol, is proffered as a new framework for understanding difference in ways that are locally meaningful in a society and media system in which racial or even ethnic differences are not the most salient. The collection points to the construction of racial others that elevates, tolerates, and incorporates difference; the construction of valued and devalued ethnic others; and the ambivalent construction of co-ethnic others as sympathetic victims or marginalized threats.

Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea

Author : Jesook Song,Michelle Cho
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472904372

Get Book

Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea by Jesook Song,Michelle Cho Pdf

Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea focuses on the relationship between media representation and gender politics in South Korea. Its chapters feature notable voices of South Korea’s burgeoning sphere of gender critique enabled by social media, doing what no other academic volume has yet accomplished in the sphere of Anglophone studies on this topic. Seeking to interrogate the role of popular media in establishing and shaping gendered common sense, this volume fosters cross-disciplinary conversations linked by the central thesis that gender discourse and representation are central to the politics, aesthetics, and economics of contemporary South Korea. In the post-authoritarian period (the late 1980s to the #MeToo present), media representation and popular discourse changed the gender conventions that are found at the core of civic, political, and cultural debates. Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea maps the ways in which popular media and public discourse make the social dynamics of gender visible and open them up for debate and dismantling. In presenting innovative new research on the ways in which popular ideas about gender gain concrete form and political substance through mass mediation, the book’s contributors investigate the discursive production of gender in contemporary South Korea through trends, tropes, and thematics, as popular media become the domain in which new gendered subjectivities and relations transpire. The essays in this volume present cases and media objects that span multiple media and platforms, introducing new ways of thinking about gender as a platform and a conceptual infrastructure in the post-authoritarian era.

Rediscovering Korean Cinema

Author : Sangjoon Lee
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780472054299

Get Book

Rediscovering Korean Cinema by Sangjoon Lee Pdf

South Korean cinema is a striking example of non-Western contemporary cinematic success. Thanks to the increasing numbers of moviegoers and domestic films produced, South Korea has become one of the world’s major film markets. In 2001, the South Korean film industry became the first in recent history to reclaim its domestic market from Hollywood and continues to maintain around a 50 percent market share today. High-quality South Korean films are increasingly entering global film markets and connecting with international audiences in commercial cinemas and art theatres, and at major international film festivals. Despite this growing recognition of the films themselves, Korean cinema’s rich heritage has not heretofore received significant scholarly attention in English-language publications. This groundbreaking collection of thirty-five essays by a wide range of academic specialists situates current scholarship on Korean cinema within the ongoing theoretical debates in contemporary global film studies. Chapters explore key films of Korean cinema, from Sweet Dream, Madame Freedom, The Housemaid, and The March of Fools to Oldboy, The Host, and Train to Busan, as well as major directors such as Shin Sang-ok, Kim Ki-young, Im Kwon-taek, Bong Joon-ho, Hong Sang-soo, Park Chan-wook, and Lee Chang-dong. While the chapters provide in-depth analyses of particular films, together they cohere into a detailed and multidimensional presentation of Korean cinema’s cumulative history and broader significance. With its historical and critical scope, abundance of new research, and detailed discussion of important individual films, Rediscovering Korean Cinema is at once an accessible classroom text and a deeply informative compendium for scholars of Korean and East Asian studies, cinema and media studies, and communications. It will also be an essential resource for film industry professionals and anyone interested in international cinema.

Human Rights and Transnational Democracy in South Korea

Author : Ingu Hwang
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812298215

Get Book

Human Rights and Transnational Democracy in South Korea by Ingu Hwang Pdf

Drawing on previously unused or underutilized archival sources, Human Rights and Transnational Democracy in South Korea offers the first account of the historical intersection between South Korea's democratic transition and the global human rights boom in the 1970s.

Routledge Handbook of Trauma in East Asia

Author : Tina Burrett,Jeff Kingston
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000859393

Get Book

Routledge Handbook of Trauma in East Asia by Tina Burrett,Jeff Kingston Pdf

This handbook explores trauma in East Asia from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, assessing how victims, perpetrators and societies have responded to such experiences and to what extent the legacies still resonate today. Mapping the trauma-scape of East Asia from an interdisciplinary perspective, including anthropologists, historians, film and literary critics, scholars of law, media and education, political scientists and sociologists, this book significantly enhances understandings of the region’s traumatic pasts and how those memories have since been suppressed, exhumed, represented and disputed. In Asia’s contested memory-scape there is much at stake for perpetrators, their victims and heirs to their respective traumas. The scholarly research in this volume examines the silencing and distortion of traumatic pasts and sustained efforts to interrogate denial and impunity in the search for accountability. Addressing collective traumas from across East Asia (China, Hong Kong, Japan, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam), this book is a valuable resource for students and scholars of Trauma and Memory Studies, Asian Studies and Contemporary Asian History more broadly.

A History of Korea

Author : Kyung Moon Hwang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350932784

Get Book

A History of Korea by Kyung Moon Hwang Pdf

Dynamic and meticulously researched, A History of Korea continues to be one of the leading introductory textbooks on Korean history. Assuming no prior knowledge, Hwang guides readers from early state formation and the dynastic eras to the modern experience in both North and South Korea. Structured around episodic accounts, each chapter begins by discussing a defining moment in Korean history in context, with an extensive examination of how the events and themes under consideration have been viewed up to the present day. By engaging with recurring themes such as collective identity, external influence, social hierarchy, family and gender, the author introduces the major historical events, patterns and debates that have shaped both North and South Korea over the past 1500 years. This textbook is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Korean or Asian history. The first half of the book covers pre-20th century history, and the second half the modern era, making it ideal for survey courses.