[KS] Publication announcement

[Christina Klein]

Dear colleagues,



I am pleased to announce the publication of my new book, *Cold War
Cosmopolitanism: Period Style in 1950s Korean Cinema* (University of
California Press, 2020).  It is available in print
<https://www.amazon.com/Cold-War-Cosmopolitanism-Period-Korean/dp/0520296508/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2GGDPZGOD5J6B&keywords=cold+war+cosmopolitanism&qid=1581372511&sprefix=cold+war+cosm%2Caps%2C133&sr=8-1>
and open access <https://www.luminosoa.org/site/books/10.1525/luminos.85/>,
and the e-pub version has embedded video clips.



South Korea in the 1950s was home to a burgeoning film culture, one of the
many “Golden Age cinemas” that flourished in Asia during the postwar
years. *Cold
War Cosmopolitanism* offers a transnational cultural history of South
Korean film style in this period, focusing on the works of Han Hyung-mo,
director of the era’s most glamorous and popular women’s pictures,
including the blockbuster *Madame Freedom* (1956). Christina Klein provides
a unique approach to the study of film style, illuminating how Han’s films
took shape within a “free world” network of aesthetic and material ties
created by the legacies of Japanese colonialism, the construction of US
military bases, the waging of the cultural Cold War by the CIA, the forging
of regional political alliances, and the import of popular cultures from
around the world. Klein combines nuanced readings of Han’s sophisticated
style with careful attention to key issues of modernity—such as feminism,
cosmopolitanism, and consumerism—in the first monograph devoted to this
major Korean director.



Table of Contents:



*Part I: Period*

   1. Postcolonial, Postwar, Cold War
   2. Cold War Cosmopolitan Feminism
   3. Public Culture

*Part II: Style *

   1. The Après Girl: Character and Plot
   2. Film Culture, Sound Culture: Setting, Cinematography, and Sound
   3. Consumer Culture and the Black Market: Mise-en-Scène
   4. A Commitment to Showmanship: Spectacle

*Conclusion *



Christina Klein
Boston College
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