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Unexpected Alliances: Independent Filmmakers, the State, and the Film Industry in Postauthoritarian South Korea by Young-a Park (review)

Unexpected Alliances: Independent Filmmakers, the State, and the Film Industry in... Unexpected Alliances: Independent Filmmakers, the State, and the Film Industry in Postauthoritarian South Korea, by Young-a Park. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014. 224 pages, notes, bibliography, filmography, index. $39.95 cloth. Young-a Park's Unexpected Alliances is a rich ethnographic study exploring how formerly radical film activists during South Korea's authoritarian era turned into ``independent filmmakers'' after democratization--taken up as symbols of political legitimacy and cultural capital in a democratic, marketdriven, globalizing Korea. The ``unexpected alliances'' that these filmmakers forged with new civilian governments, the growing cultural industry, and a middle-class audience illuminate the complex and intimate texture of the political and cultural transformation of radical activism in the postauthoritarian era. For film scholars, this work offers the sociohistorical ` formation of the Korean ``independent film'' (dongnip yongihwa) in the 1990s and describes the fascinating connection between the radical movement tradition and the emergence of a Korean cinema of diverse content and style, which later constituted an important wing of the global hallyu (Korean wave). More broadly, scholars of contemporary Korea will find an insightful analysis of the reform era (Kim Dae-Jung, 1998­2003, and Roh Moo-hyun, 2003­8) and the lasting influence of democratic struggle in the postauthoritarian culture and politics http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Korean Studies University of Hawai'I Press

Unexpected Alliances: Independent Filmmakers, the State, and the Film Industry in Postauthoritarian South Korea by Young-a Park (review)

Kang, Jiyeon
Korean Studies , Volume 39 – Feb 5, 2015
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Unexpected Alliances: Independent Filmmakers, the State, and the Film Industry in Postauthoritarian South Korea, by Young-a Park. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014. 224 pages, notes, bibliography, filmography, index. $39.95 cloth. Young-a Park's Unexpected Alliances is a rich ethnographic study exploring how formerly radical film activists during South Korea's authoritarian era turned into ``independent filmmakers'' after democratization--taken up as symbols of political legitimacy and cultural capital in a democratic, marketdriven, globalizing Korea. The ``unexpected alliances'' that these filmmakers forged with new civilian governments, the growing cultural industry, and a middle-class audience illuminate the complex and intimate texture of the political and cultural transformation of radical activism in the postauthoritarian era. For film scholars, this work offers the sociohistorical ` formation of the Korean ``independent film'' (dongnip yongihwa) in the 1990s and describes the fascinating connection between the radical movement tradition and the emergence of a Korean cinema of diverse content and style, which later constituted an important wing of the global hallyu (Korean wave). More broadly, scholars of contemporary Korea will find an insightful analysis of the reform era (Kim Dae-Jung, 1998­2003, and Roh Moo-hyun, 2003­8) and the lasting influence of democratic struggle in the postauthoritarian culture and politics

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