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Rising sun, divided land : Japanese and South Korean filmmakers / Kate E. Taylor-Jones.
LIBRA PN1998.2 .T394 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taylor-Jones, Kate E., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion picture producers and directors--Japan--Biography.
- Motion picture producers and directors.
- Japan.
- Korea (South).
- Motion picture producers and directors--Korea (South)--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- v, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Wallflower Press, [2013]
- Summary:
- Rising Sun and Divided Land provides a comprehensive, scholarly examination of the historical background, films, and careers of selected Korean and Japanese film directors. It examines eight directors: Fukasaku Kinji, Im Kwon-taek, Kawase Naomi, Miike Takashi, Lee Chang-dong, Kitano Takeshi, Park Chan-wook, and Kim Ki-duk and considers their work as reflections of personal visions and as films that engage with globalization, colonialism, nationalism, race, gender, history, and the contemporary state of Japan and South Korea. Each chapter is followed by a short analysis of a selected film, and the volume as a whole includes a cinematic overview of Japan and South Korea and a list of suggestions for further reading and viewing. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Cinematic Japan and Korea: A Long and Turbulent History 10
- Im Kwon-taek and the March of Time 25
- Film Analysis: Chihwaseon 44
- Fukasaku Kinji and Beginning With a Bomb 51
- Film Analysis: Battle Royale 65
- Lee Chang-dong and the Trauma of History 73
- Film Analysis: Secret Sunshine 91
- The Legacy of a Violent Man: Kitano Takeshi 99
- Film Analysis: Hana-bi 116
- Twisted Histories: Park Chan-wook and the Legacy of Personal Trauma 123
- Film Analysis: Oldboy 138
- The Lone Woman: Kawase Naomi 146
- Film Analysis: Sham 166
- Bad Guy: Kim Ki-duk 172
- Film Analysis: Bad Guy 188
- Miike Takashi: Welcome to the Dark Side 197
- Film Analysis: Visitor Q 211.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-234), filmography (pages 235-249) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231165860
- 0231165862
- 9780231165853
- 0231165854
- OCLC:
- 824733608
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