Movie Minorities

HYE SEUNG CHUNG is an associate professor of film and media studies at Colorado State University and the author of Hollywood Asian: Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-Ethnic Performance, Kim Ki-duk, and Hollywood Diplomacy: Film Regulation, Foreign Relations, and East Asian Representations (Rutgers University Press). She is the coauthor of Movie Migrations: Transnational Genre Flows and South Korean Cinema (Rutgers University Press). DAVID SCOTT DIFFRIENT is a professor of film and media studies at Colorado State University and the author of M*A*S*H and Omnibus Films: Theorizing Transauthorial Cinema. He is the coauthor of Movie Migrations: Transnational Genre Flows and South Korean Cinema (Rutgers University Press).  

A Note on the Text 

Introduction: “I Am a Human Being”: The Question of Rights in South Korean Cinema 

Part I Institutional Foundations and Formal Structures

1 The Rise of Rights-Advocacy Cinema in Postauthoritarian South Korea

2 If You Were Me: Transnational Crossings and South Korean Omnibus Films 

Part II Movie Minors and Minor Cinemas

3 Hell Is Other High Schoolers: Bigots, Bullies, and Teenage “Villainy” in South Korean Cinema 

4 Indie Filmmaking and Queer Advocacy: Converging Identities in Leesong Hee-il’s Films and Writings 

Part III Disability Rights in Mainstream and Minoritarian Filmmaking

5 Always, Blind, and Silenced: Disability Discourses in Contemporary South Korean Cinema 

6 Barrier-Free Cinema: Caring for People with Disabilities and Touching the Other in Planet of Snail 

Part IV Representing Prisoners of the North and South

7 Beyond Torture Epistephilia: The Ethics of Encounter and Separation in Kim Dong-won’s Repatriation 

8 Story as Freedom or Prison? Narrative Invention and Human Rights Interventions in Camp 14: Total Control Zone 

Part V Migrant Worker Rights in Hybrid Documentaries

9 Between Scenery and Scenario: Landscape, Narrative, and Structured Absence in a Korean Migrant Workers Documentary 

10 “Powers of the False” and “Real Fiction”: Migrant Workers in The City of Cranes and Other Mockumentaries 

Part VI Nonhuman Rights in a Posthuman World

11 Animal Rights Advocacy, Holocaustal Imagery, and Interspecies Empathy in An Omnivorous Family’s Dilemma and Okja 

Coda: “I Am (Not) a Human Being”: The Question of Robot Rights in South Korean Cinema 

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index