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Illusive utopia : theater, film, and everyday performance in North Korea, Suk-Young Kim

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No nation stages massive parades and collective performances on the scale of North Korea. Even amid a series of intense political/economic crises and international conflicts, the financially troubled country continues to invest massive amounts of resources to sponsor unflinching displays of patriotism, glorifying its leaders and revolutionary history through state rituals that can involve hundreds of thousands of performers. Author Suk-Young Kim explores how sixty years of state-sponsored propaganda performances--including public spectacles, theater, film, and other visual media such as posters--shape everyday practice such as education, the mobilization of labor, the gendering of social interactions, the organization of national space, tourism, and transnational human rights. Equal parts fascinating and disturbing, Illusive Utopia shows how the country's visual culture and performing arts set the course for the illusionary formation of a distinctive national identity and state legitimacy, illuminating deep-rooted cultural explanations as to why socialism has survived in North Korea despite the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and China's continuing march toward economic prosperity
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (x, 387 pages)
Contents
  • Introduction
  • Hybridization of performance genres
  • Time and space in North Korean performance
  • Revival of the state patriarchs
  • Model citizens of the family-nation
  • Acting like women in North Korea
  • Performing paradoxes : staging utopia, upstaging dystopia
  • Conclusion : looking back, moving forward
Isbn
9780472026890
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Illusive utopia : theater, film, and everyday performance in North Korea
Title
Illusive utopia
Title remainder
theater, film, and everyday performance in North Korea
Statement of responsibility
Suk-Young Kim
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
No nation stages massive parades and collective performances on the scale of North Korea. Even amid a series of intense political/economic crises and international conflicts, the financially troubled country continues to invest massive amounts of resources to sponsor unflinching displays of patriotism, glorifying its leaders and revolutionary history through state rituals that can involve hundreds of thousands of performers. Author Suk-Young Kim explores how sixty years of state-sponsored propaganda performances--including public spectacles, theater, film, and other visual media such as posters--shape everyday practice such as education, the mobilization of labor, the gendering of social interactions, the organization of national space, tourism, and transnational human rights. Equal parts fascinating and disturbing, Illusive Utopia shows how the country's visual culture and performing arts set the course for the illusionary formation of a distinctive national identity and state legitimacy, illuminating deep-rooted cultural explanations as to why socialism has survived in North Korea despite the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and China's continuing march toward economic prosperity
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N$T
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1970-
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Kim, Suk-Young
Dewey number
792.095193
Government publication
government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
PN2939.1
LC item number
.K56 2010eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
Series statement
Theater--theory/text/performance
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  • Theater and society
  • Theater
  • Motion pictures
  • Motion pictures
  • Performing arts
  • Performing arts
  • PERFORMING ARTS
  • PERFORMING ARTS
  • Motion pictures
  • Motion pictures
  • Performing arts
  • Performing arts
  • Theater and society
  • Theater
  • Korea (North)
  • Drama
  • Film
  • Propaganda
  • Spektakel
  • Nordkorea
  • Drama
  • Film
Label
Illusive utopia : theater, film, and everyday performance in North Korea, Suk-Young Kim
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Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Introduction -- Hybridization of performance genres -- Time and space in North Korean performance -- Revival of the state patriarchs -- Model citizens of the family-nation -- Acting like women in North Korea -- Performing paradoxes : staging utopia, upstaging dystopia -- Conclusion : looking back, moving forward
Control code
655250186
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (x, 387 pages)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780472026890
Lccn
2009038399
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other control number
  • 9786612639180
  • 10.3998/mpub.370207
Other physical details
illustrations (some color)
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  • 263918
  • 323f356d-e42c-4bec-8b37-58fb8e2bfc34
  • 22573/ctt1d426s5
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not applicable
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unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)655250186
Label
Illusive utopia : theater, film, and everyday performance in North Korea, Suk-Young Kim
Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Introduction -- Hybridization of performance genres -- Time and space in North Korean performance -- Revival of the state patriarchs -- Model citizens of the family-nation -- Acting like women in North Korea -- Performing paradoxes : staging utopia, upstaging dystopia -- Conclusion : looking back, moving forward
Control code
655250186
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (x, 387 pages)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780472026890
Lccn
2009038399
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other control number
  • 9786612639180
  • 10.3998/mpub.370207
Other physical details
illustrations (some color)
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
  • 263918
  • 323f356d-e42c-4bec-8b37-58fb8e2bfc34
  • 22573/ctt1d426s5
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)655250186

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