Activism and Post-activism: Korean Documentary Cinema, 1981--2022

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Jihoon Kim (Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, Chung-Ang University)

Activism and Post-activism

Korean Documentary Cinema, 1981--2022

Jihoon Kim (Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, Chung-Ang University)

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Oxford University Press Inc
15 June 2024

Documentary movies & films; Ethnic studies; Geopolitics

Activism and Post-activism: Korean Documentary Cinema, 1981--2022 is a new book about nonfiction filmmaking in the private and independent sectors of South Korean cinema and media from the early 1980s to the present day. Drawing on the methodologies of documentary studies, experimental film and video, digital cinema, local discourses on independent documentary, and the literature on the social changes of South Korea, author Jihoon Kim historicizes the formation and development of Korean independent documentary in close dialogue with South Korea's social movements. From the 1980s mass anti-dictatorship movement to twenty-first-century labor issues, feminism, LGBT rights, environmental justice, and key events such as the Sewol Ferry disaster and the Candlelight Protests, Kim offers a comprehensive history of Korean social change documentaries in terms of their activist tradition.

At the same time, Kim also maps out the formal and aesthetic divergences of twenty-first-century Korean documentary cinema beyond the activist tradition, while also demonstrating how they have inherited and dynamically renewed the tradition's engagement with contested reality and history. Making the tripartite connections between the socio-political history of South Korea, documentary's aesthetics and politics, and the shifting institutional and technological evolution of documentary production and distribution, the book argues that what is unique about this forty-year history of South Korean documentary cinema is the intensive and compressed coevolution of its two interlocked tendencies: activism and post-activism.

By: Jihoon Kim (Professor of Cinema and Media Studies Professor of Cinema and Media Studies Chung-Ang University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 224mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780197760420
ISBN 10: 0197760422
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 15 June 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments Notes on Romanization and Translations Introduction: The Double Helix Part I: Activism 1. The Development of the Activist Tradition in the 1980s and 1990s 2. 21st-Century Activist Documentaries: Three Traditional Issues 3. New Social Movements and Alternative Media Practices Part II: Post-Activism 4. The Personal Turn: Domestic Ethnography, the Essay Film, Reenactment 5. The Audiovisual Turn: From hyonjang to Memoryscape 6. The Archival Turn: Memory Wars and Materialist Historiography 7. The Digital Turn: Seeking Truth Differently Epilogue Notes Index

Jihoon Kim is Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at Chung-Ang University. He is the author of Documentary's Expanded Fields: New Media and the Twenty-First-Century Documentary (2022) and Between Film, Video, and the Digital: Hybrid Moving Images in the Post-Media Age (2016).

Reviews for Activism and Post-activism: Korean Documentary Cinema, 1981--2022

Activism and Post-activism is its breadth, making it essential reading for anyone wanting to undertake research in this field. * Christopher Corker, Asian Review of Books * All in all, the book offers rich textual and contextual analyses that would appeal to both experienced scholars and emerging researchers alike while also serving as an excellent textbook for introductory courses on Korean documentary cinema at the undergraduate and graduate levels. * Qingyang Freya Zhou, Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema *