Literature and film in Cold War South Korea: freedom's frontier

Introduction

Visuality and the colonial modern: the technics of proletarian culture, nativism, modernism, and mobilization

Visible and invisible states: liberation, occupation, division

Ambivalent anticommunism: the politics of despair and the erotics of language

Development as devolution: overcoming Communism and the "land of excrement" incident

Return to the colonial present: translation, collaboration, Pan-Asianism

Postscript.