Illusive Utopia: Theater, Film, and Everyday Performance in North Korea

by Suk-Young Kim

"North Korea is not just a security or human rights problem (although it is those things) but a real society. This book gets us closer to understanding North Korea beyond the usual headlines, and does so in a richly detailed, well-researched, and theoretically contextualized way."
---Charles K. Armstrong, Director, Center for Korean Research, Columbia University

"One of this book's strengths is how it deals at the same time with historical,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472117084
• ISBN13: 9780472117086
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"