[KS] Fw: Korea and Koreans as featured in literary works by non-Korean(ist) writers

[Kay Richards Gmail]

Re: [KS] Korea and Koreans as featured in literary works by non-Korean(ist) writersVery little attention seems to be paid to the Hollywood film made in 1952 called "One Minute to Zero" starring Robert Mitchum and Ann Blythe.  It was the first film I ever saw that mentioned the issue of civilian casualties during the Korean War.  See the url below.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Minute_to_Zero

Kay Richards

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Isabella L. Bird’s diary like account of her travels, Korea and Her Neighbors, contains many portraits, although the work is non-fiction.

Popular culture also includes the books and scripts that led up to several American films and TV programs about the MASH units. I would venture to say that more Americans have been exposed to something they think (if at all) about Korea from the still in reruns TV series which presented various Korean “types” in complex stituations.

In 1953 Humphrey Bogart starred as a MASH surgeon, along with June Allison as an Army nurse, in the film Battle Circus set in a Korean War MASH. In 1968 the novel Mash: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by Richard Hooker brought the drama of the MASH units fully into public view, and became the basis of Robert Altman's 1970 film , followed by the 1972-1983 smash hit TV series. MASH became a permanent fixture of American culture. (source: http://olive-drab.com/od_medical_treatment_mash.php). 
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From: Michael Duffy <mgduffy45 at hotmail.com>
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Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 12:32:15 +0000
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Subject: Re: [KS] Korea and Koreans as featured in literary works by non-Korean(ist) writers

Oddjob, the villain with the lethal bowler hat in Ian Fleming's Goldfinger, was Korean, though in the film, as I recall, he was portrayed as a generic inscrutable oriental.
 
The male protagonist of Han Suyin's A Many Splendored Thing, dispatched (fatally, as it turns out ) to report on the Korean War, makes the curious observation that "Korean women are not beautiful."
 
Incidentally, I seem to remember David Lodge confused Kyongju and Kongju (as then spelt) in Small World. 
 
 
       

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