Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Dedication v
3. Contents vii
4. Note on Text ix
5. Chronology xi
6. A List of Agencies and Acronyms xv
7. Introduction: Archival Revisionism and New Korean Film Historiography 1
8. 1. Fending off Darkness, Uplifting National Cinema: Korean Film Censorship and The Stray Bullet 16
9. 2. From Blackboard Jungle to The Teahouse of the August Moon: Censoring Hollywood in Postcolonial Korea 45
10. 3. Myths of Martyrs and Heroes in a Godless Land: Interagency Regulation of 1960s Anticommunist Films 82
11. 4. Cinematic Censorship as Sentimental Education: Indoctrinating Gaiety as National Emotion in Yushin-Era Youth Comedies 116
12. 5. Censors as Audiences and Vice Versa: Sex, Politics, and Labor in 1981 139
13. 6. Beyond Oral Histories and Trade Legends: A Bourdieusian-Foucauldian Deconstruction of Anti-Censorship Myths 166
14. Epilogue: Media Ratings, the End of Censorship? 184
15. Acknowledgments 191
16. Notes 193
17. Index 221
18. About the Author 233