Anticommunism in popular culture

The evolution and contestation of “anticommunist films” in South Korea

Bibliographic Data

ID19136392
AuthorsHana Lee (0000-0002-4559-3634, Seoul National University, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume1
Issue1
Publication date2016-10-04
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAsian Journal of German and European Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2199-4579
PublisherSpringer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1186/s40856-016-0009-7
OpenAlexW2528074714
LanguageEN
Citations received1

The goal of this paper is to grasp the relationship of coexistence, and at times, discord, between anticommunism and popular culture through a historical and chronological survey. To do this, this paper will first seek to understand anticommunism as an ideology with consistent logic, but a as a diverse and multilayered, mutable and contradictory affect. This gives the advantage of viewing anti-communism not from the aspect of its production, but of its acceptance. This can provide a clue as to why anticommunism, which wields unsurpassed power at present in the world’s only divided nation, Korea, compulsively defends itself while constantly in a state of insecurity and ambiguity while facing challenges and resistance, and endless cracks form in its logic. This paper consider the influence exerted by anticommunism on “anticommunist films” and the reconstruction of the conditions of “anticommunism” by “anti-communist films” as two dimensions of the changing face of anticommunism circulating in popular sentiment through an analysis of the honeymoon/conflict relationship between anticommunism and popular culture

Aesthetics · Communism · Ideology · Physics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy

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