Seoul searching : culture and identity in contemporary Korean cinema / Frances Gateward, editor.

Contributor(s):

Gateward, Frances K

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781435626898
1435626893
9780791472255
9780791479339
0791479331
0791472256
9780791472262
0791472264

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Seoul searching.DDC classification:

791.43095195 22

LOC classification:

PN1993.5.K6 S45 2007eb

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Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Industry Trends and Popular Genres -- 1. Korean Cinema after Liberation: Production, Industry, and Regulatory Trends / Seung Hyun Park -- 2. Christmas in August and Korean Melodrama / Darcy Paquet -- 3. Storming the Big Screen: The Shiri Syndrome / Chi-Yun Shin / Julian Stringer -- 4. Timeless, Bottomless Bad Movies: Or, Consuming Youth in the New Korean Cinema / David Desser -- pt. 2 Directing New Korean Cinema -- 5. Scream and Scream Again: Korean Modernity as a House of Horrors in the Films of Kim Ki-young / Chris Berry -- 6. Forgetting to Remember, Remembering to Forget: The Politics of Memory and Modernity in the Fractured Films of Lee Chang-dong and Hong Sang-soo / Hye Seung Chung / David Scott Diffrient -- 7. Reflexivity and Identity Crisis in Park Chul-soo's Farewell, My Darling / Hyangsoon Yi -- 8. Nowhere to Hide: The Tumultuous Materialism of Lee Myung-se / Anne Rutherford -- 9. Closing the Circle: Why Has Bodhidharma Left for the East? / Linda C. Ehrlich -- pt. 3 Narratives of the National -- 10. Waiting to Exhale: The Colonial Experience and the Trouble with My Own Breathing / Frances Gateward -- 11. Crossing the Border to the "Other" Side: Dynamics of Interaction between North and South Koreans in Spy Li Cheol-jin and Joint Security Area / Suk-Young Kim -- 12. Race, Gender, and Postcolonial Identity in Kim Ki-duk's Address Unknown / Myung Ja Kim -- 13. Transgressing Boundaries: From Sexual Abuse to Eating Disorders in 301/302 / Diane Carson.

Summary: "Seoul Searching is a collection of fourteen provocative essays about contemporary South Korean cinema, the most productive and dynamic cinema in Asia. Examining the three dominant genres that have led Korean film to international acclaim - melodramas, big-budget action blockbusters, and youth films - the contributors look at Korean cinema as industry, art form, and cultural product, and engage cinema's role in the formation of Korean identities."--Jacket

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"Seoul Searching is a collection of fourteen provocative essays about contemporary South Korean cinema, the most productive and dynamic cinema in Asia. Examining the three dominant genres that have led Korean film to international acclaim - melodramas, big-budget action blockbusters, and youth films - the contributors look at Korean cinema as industry, art form, and cultural product, and engage cinema's role in the formation of Korean identities."--Jacket

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