The Bloomsbury handbook of North Korean cinema /
"From Cold War-era films to contemporary sensationalist media coverage, external images have been powerful in representing North Korea in various roles. North Korean film itself is often assumed to be "unwatchable," in terms of both quality and accessibility. This first handbook on No...
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New York :
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2025.
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Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Note on Text and Translation Introduction Travis Workman (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA), Dong Hoon Kim (University of Oregon, USA) and Immanuel Kim (George Washington University, USA) Section I: Film History, History in Film 1. Stars without Glamor: Moon Ye-bong and the Making of Socialist Stars in North Korea Dong Hoon Kim (University of Oregon, USA) 2. Pleasure, Flexibility, Didacticism, and the Lingering Impact of Socialist Realist Narrative Trajectories on DPRK Film Andrew David Jackson (Monash University, Australia) 3. The Reproduction of History and the Restructuring of the Cold War in the North Korean Historical Spy Film, Red Maple Leaves Hana Lee (Seoul National University, South Korea) 4. Land, Workers, and Revolutionary Culture in North Korean Cinema Eunha Jeong Wood (Writer and independent scholar, USA) Section II: Ideology and Affect 5. Religion on the North Korean Screen: Different Approaches to Christianity and Buddhism in The Ch'oe Hak-sin Family and We Met at Mt. Myohyang Roman Husarski (Jagiellonian University, Poland) 6. A Study of the Spectatorship of North Korean Cinema: A Schoolgirl's Diary (2006) Sunah Kim (Dongseo University, Busan, South Korea) 7. North Korean Cinema Intermedial: Revolutionary Opera Film Hyunseon Lee (University of London, UK) 8. Female Leaders, and the "Unawakened" Male: Gender, Power, and Persuasion in Kim Jong Il's Juche Cinema Anna Broinowski (Sydney University, Australia) 9. Vigilant Melody: On DPRK Film Music Adam Cathcart (University of Leeds, UK) and Alexandra Leonzini (University of Cambridge, UK) Section III: Genre Conventions 10. Son'gun Cinema: Portraying the Ideal Soldier in North Korea's Military Genre Film Makayla Cherry (The Ohio State University, USA) and Pil Ho Kim (The Ohio State University, USA) 11. Spy Films of North Korea: Classic Tropes and Conventions Tatiana Gabroussenko (Korea University, South Korea) 12. Four Weddings and Propaganda: Satire in North Korean Comedy Films Immanuel Kim (George Washington University, USA) 13. North Korean Documentary Film Seung Kim (Konkuk University, South Korea) Section IV: Transnational Exchanges 14. Cinematic Exchanges Between North Korea and China (1945-1959): Screenings of Chinese Films in North Korea Yu Liu (Hanyang University, South Korea) 15. North Korean Cinema in China: The Logic of Cultural Exchange Chris Berry (King's College London, UK) 16. World Cinema and Realism in 1950s and 1960s North Korean Film Criticism Travis Workman (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA) 17. Uncommon Crossroads of North Korean Film: Cinematic Dreaming with the Big Brother Gabor Sebo (Korea University, South Korea) Section V: Interviews 18. Filmmaker and film scholar Soyoung Kim 19. Producer and director Nicholas Bonner List of Contributors Index