CULS30002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Kim Young-Sam, Park Chung-Hee, 1997 Asian Financial Crisis
8 May 2017
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Role in helping constitute (south east) asian culture. Last 2 decades, major player in asian film and media market. Blockbuster as response to global dominance of hollywood blockbusters and indigenization of blockbuster form. History of korean peninsular over past 60 years. Overview of south korean cinema (end of korean war 1953 late 1990s) Korean blockbuster as localization of particular form of transnational cinema. Brutal rule resettled japanese on the peninsula. 1945 americans and soviets divided korea 38th parallel. Korea in the first half of 20th c. Emerged from half a century of japanese colonial rule. Country permanently divided between communist north and capitalist south along one of the most heavily militarized borders in the world. North has maintained state-owned and state run film industry since 1949 heavily controlled. Nationalistic, pro-communist films that glorify korean workers party, korean. Flower girl circulated very widely in china during cultural revolution. Some interaction between chinese and nth korean industry in maoist era.
