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Political Moods. Film Melodrama and the Cold War in the Two Koreas

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dc.creatorWorkman, Travis
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-13T20:03:17Z
dc.date.available2024-05-13T20:03:17Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractMelodrama films dominated the North and South Korean industries in the period between liberation from Japanese colonial rule in 1945 and the hardening of dictatorship in the 1970s. The films of each industry are often read as direct reflections of Cold War and Korean War political ideologies and national historical experiences, and therefore as aesthetically and politically opposed. However, Political Moods develops a comparative analysis across the Cold War divide, analyzing how films in both North and South Korea convey political and moral ideas through the sentimentality of the melodramatic mode. Travis Workman reveals that the melancholic moods of film melodrama express the somatic and social conflicts between political ideologies and excesses of affect, meaning, and historical references. These moods dramatize the tension between the language of Cold War politics and the negative affects that connect cinema to what it cannot fully represent. The result is a new way of historicizing the cinema of the two Koreas in relation to colonialism, postcolonialism, war, and nation building.en
dc.identifier.doi10.1525/luminos.167
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/22065
dc.identifier.isbnisbn:978-0-520-39570-1
dc.identifier.urihttps://luminosoa.org/site/books/m/10.1525/luminos.167/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/23425
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherUniversity of California Press
dc.publisher.placeOakland
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
dc.subjectFilmen
dc.subjectCinemaen
dc.subjectMelodramaen
dc.subjectKoreaen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.titlePolitical Moods. Film Melodrama and the Cold War in the Two Koreasde
dc.typebook
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeBook
local.academicbookseriesGlobal Korea
local.coverpage2024-05-15T02:42:22
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://luminosoa.org/site/books/m/10.1525/luminos.167/
local.source.volume4

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