02877cam a22005057a 4500 090918s2010 miua b s001 0 eng 9780472117086 0472117084 SDU PN2939.1 K49 I 2010 Kim, Suk-Young, Illusive utopia : theater, film, and everyday performance in North Korea / Suk-Young Kim. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2010. 387 p. : ill. Theater--theory/text/performance HKBU Library 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. Theater and society Korea (North) Theater Political aspects Korea (North) Motion pictures Social aspects Korea (North) Motion pictures Political aspects Korea (North) Performing arts Social aspects Korea (North) Motion pictures Political aspects. Motion pictures Social aspects. Performing arts Political aspects. Performing arts Social aspects. Theater and society. Theater Political aspects. Drama. Film. Propaganda. Spektakel. Theater Nordkorea. Film Nordkorea. Darstellende Kunst Motiv Propaganda Nordkorea. Propaganda Motiv Darstellende Kunst Nordkorea. Drama. Film. Propaganda. Spektakel. Korea (North) Nordkorea. = C.1 SDU GBE lcc 105205 105205 0 0 lcc 0 PN29391 K49 I2010 0 CGB 283115 SDU SDU GEN3 2025-09-25 2 0 PN2939.1 K49 I 2010 1000370866 2025-09-25 00:00:00 C.1 2025-09-25 GBE