Consumer Culture and the Black Market: Mise-en-Scène
Christina Klein
Chapter from the book: Klein, C. 2020. Cold War Cosmopolitanism: Period Style in 1950s Korean Cinema.
Chapter from the book: Klein, C. 2020. Cold War Cosmopolitanism: Period Style in 1950s Korean Cinema.
This chapter explores Cold War cosmopolitanism via material culture. It focuses on Han’s mise-en-scene, which it interprets from three perspectives. It begins with textual analysis, examining the expressive role of consumer goods in three films: Madame Freedom, Hyperbolae of Youth, and The Hand of Fate. It next investigates the flow of these goods into Korea through transnational networks: the legal import economy, regional smuggling routes, and the web of US military bases, the latter two of which sustained a vast black market. The chapter’s final section investigates poaching as a material practice within the film industry, showing how filmmakers relied on resources procured from the black market and U.S. military to bring their films into existence.
Klein, C. 2020. Consumer Culture and the Black Market: Mise-en-Scène. In: Klein, C, Cold War Cosmopolitanism. California: University of California Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.85.g
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Published on Jan. 21, 2020