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008			090918s2010 miua b s001 0 eng
020			_a9780472117086
020			_a0472117084
040			_aSDU
050	0	0	_aPN2939.1 _bK49 I 2010
100	1		_aKim, Suk-Young,
245	1	0	_aIllusive utopia : _btheater, film, and everyday performance in North Korea / _cSuk-Young Kim.
260			_aAnn Arbor : _bUniversity of Michigan Press, _c2010.
300			_a387 p. : _bill.
490	1		_aTheater--theory/text/performance
505			_aHKBU Library
520			_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.
650		0	_aTheater and society _zKorea (North)
650		0	_aTheater _xPolitical aspects _zKorea (North)
650		0	_aMotion pictures _xSocial aspects _zKorea (North)
650		0	_aMotion pictures _xPolitical aspects _zKorea (North)
650		0	_aPerforming arts _xSocial aspects _zKorea (North)
650		7	_aMotion pictures _xPolitical aspects.
650		7	_aMotion pictures _xSocial aspects.
650		7	_aPerforming arts _xPolitical aspects.
650		7	_aPerforming arts _xSocial aspects.
650		7	_aTheater and society.
650		7	_aTheater _xPolitical aspects.
650	0	7	_aDrama.
650	0	7	_aFilm.
650	0	7	_aPropaganda.
650	0	7	_aSpektakel.
650		7	_aTheater _zNordkorea.
650		7	_aFilm _zNordkorea.
650		7	_aDarstellende Kunst _xMotiv _xPropaganda _zNordkorea.
650		7	_aPropaganda _xMotiv _xDarstellende Kunst _zNordkorea.
650	0	7	_aDrama.
650	0	7	_aFilm.
650	0	7	_aPropaganda.
650	0	7	_aSpektakel.
651		7	_aKorea (North)
651		7	_aNordkorea.
900			_a = C.1 SDU
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