In place of the upstanding protagonists of World War II, Sergeant Zack (Gene Evans) (the antisocial leader of a unit of physically and emotionally disfigured soldiers in Samuel Fuller's The Steel Helmet ) became the archetypal symbol of the Korean War-someone on the verge of a nervous breakdown whose bewilderment was a fitting allegory for the American public's ambivalence or indifference toward the war. Whereas World War II presented a comprehensible reason to fight, with clearly delineated good and bad guys and an ego-inflating moral justification to boot, there were no readily identifiable heroes or just causes to fill the void for the moviegoing public of the Cold War generation. Although officially categorized as "military enlightenment" and "anticommunist" by the Park Chung Hee regime, the war films directed by Yi Man-hui (Lee Man-hee)-one of the most important auteurs in South Korea's cinematic Golden Age of the 1960s-transcend formulaic genre constraints and deserve special attention for their humanistic approach to the Korean War.įor all its importance in the United States' struggle against international communism, the Korean War (June 25, 1950-July 27, 1953) never really captured the American public's imagination as did World War II, which generated more than five hundred fiction and documentary films in Hollywood between 19. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Abstract. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.
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