Indie Filmmaking and Queer Advocacy: Converging Identities in Leesong Hee-il's Films and Writings Hell is Other High Schoolers: Bigots, Bullies, and Teenage "Villainy" in South Korean CinemaĤ. If You Were Me: Transnational Crossings and South Korean Omnibus Filmsģ. The Rise of Rights-Advocacy Cinema in Postauthoritarian South KoreaĢ. PART I - Institutional Foundations and Formal Structuresġ. Introduction: "I am a Human Being": The Question of Rights in South Korean Cinema Combining in-depth textual analyses of films such as Bleak Night, Okja, Planet of Snail, Repatriation, and Silenced with broader historical contextualization, Movie Minorities offers the first English-language study of South Korean cinema's role in helping to galvanize activist social movements across several identity-based categories." With that cultural shift has come a diversification of film subjects, which range from undocumented workers' rights to the sexual harassment experienced by women to high-school bullying to the struggles among people with disabilities to gain inclusion within a society that has transformed significantly since winning democratic freedoms three decades ago.
Today it is not unusual to see a big-budget production about the pursuit of social justice or the protection of civil liberties contending for the top spot at the box office. Publisher's intro: "Rights advocacy has become a prominent facet of South Korea's increasingly transnational motion picture output, especially following the 1998 presidential inauguration of Kim Dae-jung, a former political prisoner and victim of human rights abuses who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000. MOVIE MINORITIES: TRANSNATIONAL RIGHTS ADVOCACY AND SOUTH KOREAN CINEMA (2021) by Hye Seung Chung and David Scott Diffrient.
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