Split Screen Korea: Shin Sang-ok and Postwar Cinema

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split screen korea This page intentionally left blank SPLIT SCREEN KOREA Shin Sang-ok and Postwar Cinema Steven Chung University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis London A different version of chapter 2 was published as “Regimes within Regimes: Film and Fashion Cultures in the Korean 1950s,” in The Korean Popular Culture Reader, ed. Youngmin Choe and Kyung Hyun Kim (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2013). Different versions of chapter 4, which appeared in Korean, were published as “Melodrama, Style, and the Scene of Development: Shin Sang-ok’s Rice and Evergreen” (“Mellodŭrama, sŭtail, kŭrigo kaebaljuŭi ŭi changmyŏn: Sin Sang-ok ŭi Ssal kwa Sangnoksu”), in Korean Cinema and Democracy (Yŏnghwa wa minjujuŭi), ed. The Korean Media Research Group (Seoul: Sonin Press, 2011), 265–303, and as “Mass Melodrama and the Spectacle of Development: Shin Sang-ok’s 1960s ‘Enlightenment Films’ (“Taejung mellodŭrama wa kaebaljuŭi ŭi sŭpekt’akŭl: Sin Sang-ok ŭi 1960 nyŏndae kyemong yŏnghwa”), Memory and Vision (Kiŏk kwa chŏnmang), no. 25 (Winter 2011): 217–50. A different version of chapter 5 appeared as “Split Screen: Sin Sang-ok in North Korea,” in North Korea: Toward a Better Understanding, ed. Sonia Ryang (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2009), 85–108. Copyright 2014 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying , recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 http://www.upress.umn.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Chung, Steven. Split screen Korea : Shin Sang-ok and postwar cinema / Steven Chung. Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index. ISBN 978-0-8166-9133-3 (hc : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8166-9134-0 (pb : alk. paper) 1. Sin, Sang-ok, 1926–2006—Criticism and interpretation. 2. Korea (South)— In motion pictures. I. Title. PN1998.3.S538C48 2013 791.430233’092—dc23 2013028408 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer. 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 The University of Minnesota Press gratefully acknowledges financial assistance provided for the publication of this book from Princeton University’s University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. for my father, ju-ho chung This page intentionally left blank ...