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Author Petersen, Martin

Title North Korean Graphic Novels
Published Milton : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (323 pages)
Series Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Ser
Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Ser
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction: seduction of the innocent? Kurimchaek as entertainment, education, harmful media, political propaganda and beyond; Part I History, media and regime; 1 A short history of North Korea and kurimchaek; 2 Post-1998 North Korean graphic novels; 3 Father, mother and son: one family, one nation, one medium; Part II Seduction of the reader; 4 A society in crisis? From The Arduous March to a new deal; 5 The downfall of a model citizen? Family background as plot tension and policy discord
6 Sleepless in the DPRK: graphic negotiations of 'family' in The True Identity of 'Pear Blossom'7 Patriots behind enemy lines: hyperreality and excess in graphic novels about war; Part III Reading for the reader; 8 Reading for the North Korean reader I: media framing of comics consumption in contemporary DPRK; 9 Reading for the North Korean reader II: comics in children's literature and refugee reminiscences; Final panel: seduction of the innocent?; Index
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Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781351668200
135166820X