Illusive utopia theater, film, and everyday performance in North Korea / [electronic resource] :
- 作者： Kim, Suk-Young, 1970-
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- 出版： Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press
- 叢書名： Theater--theory/text/performance
- 主題： Performing arts--Political aspects--Korea (North) , Performing arts--Social aspects--Korea (North) , Motion pictures--Political aspects--Korea (North) , Motion pictures--Social aspects--Korea (North) , Theater--Political aspects--Korea (North) , Theater and society--Korea (North)
- ISBN： 9780472026890 (electronic bk.) 、 0472026895 (electronic bk.) 、 9780472117086 (hbk.) 、 0472117084 (hbk.)
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CGU
- 資料類型: 電子書
- 內容註: Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction -- Hybridization of performance genres -- Time and space in North Korean performance -- Revival of the state patriarchs -- Model citizens of the family-nation -- Acting like women in North Korea-- Performing paradoxes : staging utopia, upstaging dystopia -- Conclusion : looking back, moving forward.
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- 系統號： 005101235 | 機讀編目格式
館藏資訊
"North Korea is not just a security or human rights problem (although it is those things) but a real society. This book gets us closer to understanding North Korea beyond the usual headlines, and does so in a richly detailed, well-researched, and theoretically contextualized way." ---Charles K. Armstrong, Director, Center for Korean Research, Columbia University "One of this book's strengths is how it deals at the same time with historical, geographical, political, artistic, and cultural materials. Film and theatre are not the only arts Kim studies---she also offers an excellent analysis of paintings, fashion, and what she calls 'everyday performance.' Her analysis is brilliant, her insights amazing, and her discoveries and conclusions always illuminating." ---Patrice Pavis, University of Kent, Canterbury No nation stages massive parades and collective performances on the scale of North Korea. Even amid a series of intense political/economic crises and international conflicts, the financially troubled country continues to invest massive amounts of resources to sponsor unflinching displays of patriotism, glorifying its leaders and revolutionary history through state rituals that can involve hundreds of thousands of performers. Author Suk-Young Kim explores how sixty years of state-sponsored propaganda performances---including public spectacles, theater, film, and other visual media such as posters---shape everyday practice such as education, the mobilization of labor, the gendering of social interactions, the organization of national space, tourism, and transnational human rights. Equal parts fascinating and disturbing, Illusive Utopia shows how the country's visual culture and performing arts set the course for the illusionary formation of a distinctive national identity and state legitimacy, illuminating deep-rooted cultural explanations as to why socialism has survived in North Korea despite the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and China's continuing march toward economic prosperity. With over fifty striking color illustrations, Illusive Utopia captures the spectacular illusion within a country where the arts are not only a means of entertainment but also a forceful institution used to regulate, educate, and mobilize the population. Suk-Young Kim is Associate Professor in the Department of Theater and Dance at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and coauthor with Kim Yong of Long Road Home: A Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor.