Bøger af Travis Workman

"Deftly employing melodrama not so much as a genre as a domain of affect, Travis Workman provides a pathbreaking new framework for understanding post-1945 Korean film. Not only does this allow him to situate both South and North Korean cinema on a shared plane, it also enables him to reimagine the position Korean cinema occupies within global film culture, allowing us to see how the movie cultures of both Koreas existed in tense dialogue with both Hollywood and Soviet cinema, as well as with unacknowledged legacies from the Japanese colonial period. An important and highly original work."--Michael K. Bourdaghs, University of Chicago "In this bracing reading of melodramatic form in Korean films, Workman raises a bold question that haunts Korean studies: how to develop a comparative understanding of the vastly different political, social, and cultural scenarios in the films of North and South Koreas? His answer drives our attention to the subject of mood--how it serves as the crucial matrix that regulates, complicates, and innovates the enduring moral reasoning of nation, history, family, and individual subjectivity in the two cinematic traditions. Theories of affect and ideology find their most rigorous and sustained articulation in this treatise. A stupendous contribution to the scholarship on Korean cinema, Cold War culture, and melodrama studies."--Jinsoo An, author of Parameters of Disavowal: Colonial Representation in South Korean Cinema

Essays featuring twentieth-century Korean thought on literature and culture.Faced with dramatic social and political changes, Korean writers of the twentieth century--writing in the context of Japanese imperialism, World War II, the Korean War, and the Cold War era--explored many pressing questions about modern life: What is the relationship between literature and society? How can intellectual concepts be used politically, for good or ill? What are the differences between Eastern and Western cultures? The essays in this collection, originally published between 1933 and 1957, explore these and other questions through varying lenses, including liberal humanism, socialism, fascism, and an early form of North Korea's Juche thought. Featuring works by Paik Ch'ŏl, Sŏ Insik, Ŏm Hosŏk, and Ch'oe Chaesŏ, the volume highlights the diversity of twentieth-century Korean thought, its developments during periods of upheaval, and its engagement with ideas of modernity that were being shared around the world.This volume contains discussion of writers such as Matthew Arnold, T. S. Eliot, Maxim Gorky, G. W. F. Hegel, Martin Heidegger, James Joyce, Karl Marx, Walter Pater, Plato, Marcel Proust, Yi Kwangsu, and Yi Sang; movements, schools of thought, and literary styles such as English Romanticism, European modernism, German idealism, the Kyoto school of philosophy, Marxism, naturalism, the New Tendency Group, nihilism, socialist realism, and tendentious literature; traditions such as Hinduism, Mahayana Buddhism, Taoism, and Zen Buddhism; and the sociopolitical and economic formation known as East Asian Community.

Simultaneously published in Korean as Hyumæonijæum, cheguk, minjok: Han'guk æui munhak kwa munhwa pip'yæong.

How were concepts of the human's genus-being operative in the discourses of the Japanese empire? How did they inform the imagination and representation of modernity in colonial Korea? This title deals with these queries.