Kim Ki-duk / Hye Seung Chung.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chung, Hye Seung, 1971-

Series:

Contemporary film directors

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kim, Ki-dŏk, 1960-2020--Criticism and interpretation.

Kim, Ki-dŏk.

Kim, Ki-dŏk, 1960-2020.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

x, 161 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2012]

Summary:

This study investigates the controversial motion pictures written and directed by the independent filmmaker Kim Ki-duk, one of the most acclaimed Korean auteurs in the English-speaking world. Propelled by underdog protagonists who can only communicate through shared corporeal pain and extreme violence, Kim's graphic films have been classified by Western audiences as belonging to sensationalist East Asian "extreme" cinema, and Kim has been labelled a "psychopath" and "misogynist" in South Korea. Drawing upon both Korean-language and English-language sources, Hye Seung Chung challenges these misunderstandings, recuperating Kim's oeuvre as a therapeutic, yet brutal cinema of Nietzschean ressentiment (political anger and resentment deriving from subordination and oppression).

Contents:

Beyond "extreme": the cinema of ressentiment. Kim Ki-duk: towards a more perfect imperfection

An auteur is born: fishhooks, critical debates, and transnational canons

On suffering and sufferance: postcolonial pain and the "purloined letter" in Address unknown

Reconciling the paradox of silence and apologia: Bad guy, The isle, and 3-iron

Neofeminist revisions: female bodies and semiotic chora in Birdcage inn and Samaritan girl

The bodhisattva inner-eye: inwardly drawn transcendence in Spring, summer, fall, winter

and spring

Interview with Kim Ki-duk: from Crocodile to Address unknown / by Kim So-Hee.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.

ISBN:

9780252078415

0252078411

9780252036699

0252036697

OCLC:

747713071