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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gateward, Frances K.

Series:

SUNY series, horizons of cinema.

SUNY series, horizons of cinema

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Korea (South).

Motion pictures.

Culture in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Korean cinema as industry, art form, and cultural product.

Contents:

Intro

Seoul Searching

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART 1. Industry Trends and Popular Genres

1. Korean Cinema after Liberation: Production, Industry, and Regulatory Trends

2. Christmas in August and Korean Melodrama

3. Storming the Big Screen: The Shiri Syndrome

4. Timeless, Bottomless Bad Movies: Or, Consuming Youth in the New Korean Cinema

PART 2. Directing New Korean Cinema

5. Scream and Scream Again: Korean Modernity as a House of Horrors in the Films of Kim Ki-young

6. Forgetting to Remember, Remembering to Forget: The Politics of Memory and Modernityin the Fractured Films of Lee Chang-dongand Hong Sang-soo

7. Reflexivity and Identity Crisisin Park Chul-soo's Farewell, My Darling

8. Nowhere to Hide: The Tumultuous Materialism of Lee Myung-se

9. Closing The Circle: Why Has Bodhidharma Left For The East?

PART 3. Narratives of the National

10. Waiting to Exhale: The Colonial Experience and theTrouble with My Own Breathing

11. Crossing the Border to the "Other" Side: Dynamics of Interaction betweenNorth and South Koreans in Spy Li Cheol-jin and Joint Security Area

12. Race, Gender, and Postcolonial Identity in Kim Ki-duk'sAddress Unknown

13. Transgressing Boundaries: From Sexual Abuse to Eating Disorders in 301/302

14. Taking the Plunge: Representing Queer Desire in Contemporary South Korean Cinema

Contributors

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

Y

Z.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7914-7933-1

1-4356-2689-3

OCLC:

191684448