Literature and film in Cold War South Korea : freedom's frontier - Hughes, Theodore H. (New York : Columbia University Press, 2012)
Introduction -- Visuality and the colonial modern: the technics of proletarian culture, nativism, modernism, and mobilization -- Visible and invisible states: liberation, occupation, division -- Ambivalent anticommunism: the politics of despair and the erotics of language -- Development as devolution: overcoming Communism and the "land of excrement" incident -- Return to the colonial present: translation, collaboration, Pan-Asianism -- Postscript.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Korean literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Politics in literature; Nationalism and literature -- Korea (South); Motion pictures -- Korea (South) -- History -- 20th century; Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- Korea (South); Politics in motion pictures