Cinematic han and the Historical Film: South Korean Cinema and the Representation Of Korea’s Geopolitical Conflict in the Twentieth Century

A permanent Korean cultural aesthetic can be identified within South Korean historical cinema. By utilising a textual, historical and theoretical analysis methodology, this thesis examines South Korean films that depict Korean geopolitical conflict in the twentieth century to argue that this aesthet...

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Main Author: McMahon, Niall Edward Peter
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/73578
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description A permanent Korean cultural aesthetic can be identified within South Korean historical cinema. By utilising a textual, historical and theoretical analysis methodology, this thesis examines South Korean films that depict Korean geopolitical conflict in the twentieth century to argue that this aesthetic, referred to as cinematic han, produces historical knowledge through the creation of symbolic links between the cinematic text and the context of its production.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-735782019-02-11T06:49:54Z Cinematic han and the Historical Film: South Korean Cinema and the Representation Of Korea’s Geopolitical Conflict in the Twentieth Century McMahon, Niall Edward Peter A permanent Korean cultural aesthetic can be identified within South Korean historical cinema. By utilising a textual, historical and theoretical analysis methodology, this thesis examines South Korean films that depict Korean geopolitical conflict in the twentieth century to argue that this aesthetic, referred to as cinematic han, produces historical knowledge through the creation of symbolic links between the cinematic text and the context of its production. 2018 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/73578 Curtin University fulltext
spellingShingle McMahon, Niall Edward Peter
Cinematic han and the Historical Film: South Korean Cinema and the Representation Of Korea’s Geopolitical Conflict in the Twentieth Century
title Cinematic han and the Historical Film: South Korean Cinema and the Representation Of Korea’s Geopolitical Conflict in the Twentieth Century
title_full Cinematic han and the Historical Film: South Korean Cinema and the Representation Of Korea’s Geopolitical Conflict in the Twentieth Century
title_fullStr Cinematic han and the Historical Film: South Korean Cinema and the Representation Of Korea’s Geopolitical Conflict in the Twentieth Century
title_full_unstemmed Cinematic han and the Historical Film: South Korean Cinema and the Representation Of Korea’s Geopolitical Conflict in the Twentieth Century
title_short Cinematic han and the Historical Film: South Korean Cinema and the Representation Of Korea’s Geopolitical Conflict in the Twentieth Century
title_sort cinematic han and the historical film: south korean cinema and the representation of korea’s geopolitical conflict in the twentieth century
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/73578