02794cam a22004697a 4500008004100000020001800041020001500059040000800074050002500082100002000107245009600127260005400223300001900277490003700296505001700333520123200350650003901582650004601621650005101667650005401718650005101772650004001823650003701863650004001900650003701940650002501977650003202002650001102034650001002045650001602055650001502071650002402086650002102110650005402131650005402185650001102239650001002250650001602260650001502276651001802291651001502309090918s2010    miua     b   s001 0 eng    a9780472117086  a0472117084  aSDU00aPN2939.1bK49 I 20101 aKim, Suk-Young,10aIllusive utopia :btheater, film, and everyday performance in North Korea /cSuk-Young Kim.  aAnn Arbor :bUniversity of Michigan Press,c2010.  a387 p. :bill.1 aTheater--theory/text/performance  aHKBU Library  aNo 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. 0aTheater and societyzKorea (North) 0aTheaterxPolitical aspectszKorea (North) 0aMotion picturesxSocial aspectszKorea (North) 0aMotion picturesxPolitical aspectszKorea (North) 0aPerforming artsxSocial aspectszKorea (North) 7aMotion picturesxPolitical aspects. 7aMotion picturesxSocial aspects. 7aPerforming artsxPolitical aspects. 7aPerforming artsxSocial aspects. 7aTheater and society. 7aTheaterxPolitical aspects.07aDrama.07aFilm.07aPropaganda.07aSpektakel. 7aTheaterzNordkorea. 7aFilmzNordkorea. 7aDarstellende KunstxMotivxPropagandazNordkorea. 7aPropagandaxMotivxDarstellende KunstzNordkorea.07aDrama.07aFilm.07aPropaganda.07aSpektakel. 7aKorea (North) 7aNordkorea.