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Korean opera-film Chunhyang and the trans-cultural politics of the voice

Author(s) -

Jeongwon Joe

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

muzikologija

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2406-0976

pISSN - 1450-9814

DOI - 10.2298/muz0505181j

Subject(s) - opera , hollywood , politics , indigenous , movie theater , literature , art , art history , political science , law , ecology , biology

This essay examines a Korean opera-film Chunhyang (2000) to show how it departs from the standard practice of Western opera-film and how its uniqueness is generated by the characteristics of indigenous Korean opera P'ansori. In spite of its uniqueness, however, Chunhyang shows its affinities with its Western sisters by confirming what has been criticized by many feminist scholars as one of the most serious problems in the Western tradition of cinema, especially Hollywood's classical films: namely, the gendered politics of the voice

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