South Korea in the 1950s was home to a burgeoning film culture, one of the many "Golden Age cinemas" that flourished in Asia during the postwar years.
Christina Klein provides a unique approach to the study of film style.
Cold War Cosmopolitanism offers a transnational cultural history of South Korean film Style in this period, focusing on the works of Han Hyung-mo, director of the era\'s most glamorous and popular women\'s pictures, including the blockbuster Madame Freedom (1956).
South Korea in the 1950s was home to a burgeoning film culture, one of the many "Golden Age cinemas" that flourished in Asia during the postwar years