Movie Minorities: Transnational Rights Advocacy and South Korean Cinema

by David Scott Diffrient and Hye Seung Chung

Book Overview

Rights advocacy has become a prominent facet of South Korea's increasingly transnational motion picture output, especially following the 1998 presidential inauguration of Kim Dae-jung, a former political prisoner and victim of human rights abuses who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000. Today it is not unusual to see a big-budget production about the pursuit of social justice or the protection of civil liberties contending for the top spot at the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978809646
• ISBN13: 9781978809642
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher