Cold War Cosmopolitanism: Period Style in 1950s Korean Cinema

by Christina Klein

South Korea in the 1950s was home to a burgeoning film culture, one of the many "Golden Age cinemas" that flourished in Asia during the postwar years. Cold War Cosmopolitanism offers a transnational cultural history of South Korean film style in this period, focusing on the works of Han Hyung-mo, director of the era's most glamorous and popular women's pictures, including the blockbuster Madame Freedom (1956). Christina Klein provides...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520296508
• ISBN13: 9780520296503
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"