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Jeon, Joseph Jonghyun

 
9781503608450: Vicious Circuits: Korea's IMF Cinema and the End of the American Century
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ISBN 10 : 150360845X ISBN 13 : 9781503608450
Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2019

Synopsis

In December of 1997, the International Monetary Fund announced the largest bailout package in its history, aimed at stabilizing the South Korean economy in response to a credit and currency crisis of the same year. Vicious Circuits examines what it terms "Korea's IMF Cinema," the decade of cinema following that crisis, in order to think through the transformations of global political economy at the end of the American century. It argues that one of the most dominant traits of the cinema that emerged after the worst economic crisis in the history of South Korea was its preoccupation with economic phenomena. As the quintessentially corporate art form--made as much in the boardroom as in the studio--film in this context became an ideal site for thinking through the global political economy in the transitional moment of American decline and Chinese ascension. With an explicit focus of state economic policy, IMF cinema did not just depict the economy; it also was this economy's material embodiment. That is, it both represented economic developments and was itself an important sector in which the same pressures and changes affecting the economy at large were at work. Joseph Jonghyun Jeon's window on Korea provides a peripheral but crucial perspective on the operations of late US hegemony and the contradictions that ultimately corrode it.

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À propos de l'auteur

Joseph Jonghyun Jeon is Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of Racial Things, Racial Forms: Objecthood in Avant-Garde Asian American Poetry (2012).

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Éditeur
Stanford University Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
150360845X
ISBN 13 
9781503608450
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
248
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