Activism and post-activism : Korean documentary cinema, 1981-2022 / Jihoon Kim.
'Activism and Post-activism' is about South Korean cinema in the private and independent sectors from the early 1980s to the present day. Drawing on the methodologies of documentary studies, Korean studies, and local documentary discourse, Jihoon Kim argues that what is unique about this 4...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press,
2024.
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| Series: | Oxford scholarship online.
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| Summary: | 'Activism and Post-activism' is about South Korean cinema in the private and independent sectors from the early 1980s to the present day. Drawing on the methodologies of documentary studies, Korean studies, and local documentary discourse, Jihoon Kim argues that what is unique about this 40-year history of South Korean documentary cinema is the intensive and compressed coevolution of activism aspiring to advocate democracy, progressiveness, and equality through alternative media, and post-activist experiments in documentary forms and aesthetics in the service of renewing the activist tradition. |
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| Item Description: | Also issued in print: 2024. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations. |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197760451 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/oso/9780197760413.001.0001 |