 | Literature and Film in Cold War South Korea: Freedom''s Frontier Subjects: Korean literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Politics in literature; Nationalism and literature -- Korea (South); Motion pictures -- Korea (South) -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- Korea (Sout; Korean writers and filmmakers layered literary and visual cultures in numerous ways under Japanese colonial rule (1910-1945). Taking advantage of new modes and media that emerged in the early twentieth century, these artists sought and utilized subtle strategies for representing the realities of colonialism and global modernity. Theodore Hughes begins by unpacking the interactions among literature, film, and art during this period, paying particular attention to the emerging proletarian movement, literary modernism, nativism, and wartime mobilization. He then demonstrates how these developments informed the efforts of post-1945 writers and filmmakers as they confronted the aftershocks of colonialism, war, and the formation of separate regimes in North and South Korea. Hughes Theodore : Theodore Hughes is Korea Foundation Associate Professor of Korean Studies in the Humanities in Columbia's EALAC. He is the author of Literature and Film in Cold War South Korea: Freedom's Frontier (Columbia University Press, 2012), which won the James B. Palais Book Prize of the Association for Asian Studies.Theodore Hughes is associate professor of modern Korean literature and film in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. He earned his Ph.D. in modern Korean literature from the University of California, Los Angeles, and is the translator of Panmunjom and Other Stories by Lee Ho-Chul. |
