5 Always, Blind, and Silenced Disability Discourses in Contemporary South Korean Cinema

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. A Note on the Text ix
4. Introduction “I Am a Human Being” The Question of Rights in South Korean Cinema 1
5. Part 1 Institutional Foundations and Formal Structures
6. 1 The Rise of Rights-Advocacy Cinema in Postauthoritarian South Korea 19
7. 2 If You Were Me 38
8. Part 2 Movie Minors and Minor Cinemas
9. 3 Hell Is Other High Schoolers. Bigots, Bullies, and Teenage “Villainy” in South Korean Cinema 63
10. 4 Indie Filmmaking and Queer Advocacy. Converging Identities in Leesong Hee-il’s Films and Writing 85
11. 5 Always, Blind, and Silenced Disability Discourses in Contemporary South Korean Cinema 105
12. 6 Barrier-Free Cinema Caring for People with Disabilities and Touching the Other in Planet of Snail 124
13. Part 4 Representing Prisoners of the North and South
14. 7 Beyond Torture Epistephilia. The Ethics of Encounter and Separation in Kim Dong-won’s Repatriatio 145
15. 8 Story as Freedom or Prison? Narrative Invention and Human Rights Interventions in Camp 14: Total Control Zone 161
16. Part 5 Migrant Worker Rights in Hybrid Documentaries
17. 9 Between Scenery and Scenario Landscape, Narrative, and Structured Absence in a Korean Migrant Workers Documentary 185
18. 10 “Powers of the False” and “Real Fiction” Migrant Workers in The City of Cranes and Other Mockumentaries 205
19. Part 6 Nonhuman Rights in a Posthuman World
20. 11 Animal Rights Advocacy, Holocaustal Imagery, and Interspecies Empathy in An Omnivorous Family’s Dilemma and O 219
21. Coda “I Am (Not) a Human Being” The Question of Robot Rights in South Korean Cinema 246
22. Acknowledgments 255
23. Notes 257
24. Index 287