Cinema under National Reconstruction

Hye Seung Chung is the author or coauthor of Movie Minorities: Transnational Rights Advocacy and South Korean Cinema (Rutgers University Press, 2021), Hollywood Diplomacy: Film Regulation, Foreign Relations, and East Asian Representations (Rutgers University Press, 2020) and Movie Migrations: Transnational Genre Flows and South Korean Cinema (Rutgers University Press, 2015), Hollywood Asian: Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-Ethnic Performance, and Kim Ki-duk.

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CHRONOLOGY
A LIST OF AGENCIES AND ACRONYMS
INTRODUCTION: Archival Revisionism and New Korean Film Historiography
CHAPTER 1: Fending off Darkness, Uplifting National Cinema: Korean Film Censorship and The Stray Bullet
CHAPTER 2: From Blackboard Jungle to The Teahouse of the August Moon: Censoring Hollywood in Postcolonial Korea
CHAPTER 3: Myths of Martyrs and Heroes in a Godless Land: Interagency Regulation of 1960s Anticommunist Films
CHAPTER 4: Cinematic Censorship as Sentimental Education: Indoctrinating Gaiety as National Emotion in Yushin-Era Youth Comedies
CHAPTER 5: Censors as Audiences and Vice Versa: Sex, Politics, and Labor in 1981
CHAPTER 6: Beyond Oral Histories and Trade Legends: A Bourdieusian-Foucauldian Deconstruction of Anti-Censorship Myths
EPILOGUE: Media Ratings, the End of Censorship?
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX