Split Screen Korea: Shin Sang-ok and Postwar Cinema by Steven Chung (Paperback, 2014)

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Shin's films were shaped by national division and Cold War politics, but Split Screen Korea finds surprising aesthetic and political continuities across not only distinct phases in modern South Korean history but also between South and North Korea.

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Shin Sang-ok (1926-2006) was arguably the most important Korean filmmaker of the postwar era. Over seven decades, he directed or produced nearly 200 films, including A Flower in Hell (1958) and Pulgasari (1985), and his career took him from late-colonial Korea to postwar South and North Korea to Hollywood. Notoriously crossing over to the North in 1978, Shin made a series of popular films under Kim Jong-il before seeking asylum in 1986 and resuming his career in South Korea and Hollywood. In Split Screen Korea, Steven Chung illuminates the story of postwar Korean film and popular culture through the first in-depth account in English of Shin's remarkable career. Shin's films were shaped by national division and Cold War politics, but Split Screen Korea finds surprising aesthetic and political continuities across not only distinct phases in modern South Korean history but also between South and North Korea. These are unveiled most dramatically in analysis of the films Shin made on opposite sides of the DMZ. Chung explains how a filmmaking sensibility rooted in the South Korean market and the global style of Hollywood could have been viable in the North. Combining close readings of a broad range of films with research on the industrial and political conditions of Korean film production, Split Screen Korea shows how cinematic styles, popular culture, and intellectual discourse bridged the divisions of postwar Korea, raising new questions about the implications of political partition.

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PublisherUniversity of Minnesota Press
ISBN-139780816691340
eBay Product ID (ePID)200764766

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Number of Pages304 Pages
Publication NameSplit Screen Korea: Shin Sang-OK and Postwar Cinema
LanguageEnglish
SubjectHistory
Publication Year2014
TypeTextbook
AuthorSteven Chung
Subject AreaArt & Culture
FormatPaperback

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Item Height216 mm
Item Width140 mm

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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorSteven Chung
TopicElectronics

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