Korean film : history, resistance, and democratic imagination / Eungjun Min, Jinsook Joo, and Han Ju Kwak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Min, Eungjun, 1957-

Contributor:

Joo, Jinsook.

Kwak, Han Ju.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Korea--History.

Motion pictures.

Korea.

History.

Physical Description:

197 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.

Summary:

Establishes contextual and theoretical bases to help the reader understand cultural, political, and socioeconomic aspects of Korean film.

Contents:

1 Korean Cinema: Philosophical Foundations and Theoretical Frameworks 1

2 Oppression, Liberation, Censorship, and Depression: History and Major Trends of Korean Cinema from the 1910s to the 1970s 25

3 Korean National Cinema in the 1980s: Enlightenment, Political Struggle, Social Realism, and Defeatism 57

4 Auteur Criticism: The Case of Sunwoo Jang's Taste of Heaven 85

5 Discourses of Modernity and Postmodernity in Contemporary Korean Cinema 113

6 Hollywood Imagination, Foreign Films, and Korean Identity: Resistance, Assimilation, and Articulation 149

7 Contemporary Korean Cinema: A Boom or a Renaissance? 167.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-194) and index.

ISBN:

0275958116

OCLC:

49383889