Chapter 7. The Partisan, the Worker, and the Hidden Hero: Popular Icons in North Korean Film

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction Indexing Korean Popular Culture 1
5. Part one. CLICK AND SCROLL
6. Chapter 1. The World in a Love Letter 15
7. Chapter 2. Fisticuffs, High Kicks, and Colonial Histories 34
8. Chapter 3. It All Started with a Bang: The Role of PC Bangs in South Korea’s Cybercultures 55
9. Chapter 4. As Seen on the Internet: The Recap as Translation in English-Language K-drama Fandoms 76
10. Part two. LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION!
11. Introduction 99
12. Chapter 5. Regimes within Regimes: Film and Fashion Cultures in the Korean 1950s 103
13. Chapter 6. The Quasi Patriarch: Kim Sŭng-ho and South Korean Postwar Movies 126
14. Chapter 7. The Partisan, the Worker, and the Hidden Hero: Popular Icons in North Korean Film 145
15. Chapter 8. Face Value: The Star as Genre in Bong Joon-ho’s Mother 168
16. Part three. GOLD, SILVER, AND BRONZE
17. Introduction 196
18. Chapter 9. Bend It Like a Man of Chosun: Sports Nationalism and Colonial Modernity of 1936 199
19. Chapter 10. “She Became Our Strength”: Female Athletes and (Trans)national Desires 228
20. Part four. STRUT, MOVE, AND SHAKE
21. Introduction 249
22. Chapter 11. Young Musical Love of the 1930s 255
23. Chapter 12. Birth, Death, and Resurrection of Group Sound Rock 275
24. Chapter 13. The Popularity of Individualism: The Seo Taiji Phenomenon in the 1990s 296
25. Chapter 14. Girls’ Generation? Gender, (Dis)Empowerment, and K-pop 314
26. Part five. FOOD AND TRAVEL
27. Introduction 337
28. Chapter 15. South Korean Advertising as Popular Culture 341
29. Chapter 16. The Global Hansik Campaign and the Commodification of Korean Cuisine 363
30. Chapter 17. Seung Woo Back’s Blow Up (2005–2007): Touristic Fantasy, Photographic Desire, and Catastrophic North Korea 385
31. Bibliography 407
32. Contributors 431
33. Index 435