Split Screen Korea [electronic resource] : Shin Sang-ok and Postwar Cinema

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chung, Steven.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Korea (South)--In motion pictures.

Movie industry.

Sin, Sang-ok, -- 1926-2006--Criticism and interpretation.

Local Subjects:

Korea (South)--In motion pictures.

Movie industry.

Sin, Sang-ok, -- 1926-2006--Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Shin Sang-ok (1926-2006) was arguably the most important Korean filmmaker of the postwar era. Over seven decades, he directed or produced nearly 200 films, including A Flower in Hell (1958) and Pulgasari (1985), and his career took him from late-colonial Korea to postwar South and North Korea to Hollywood. Notoriously crossing over to the North in 1978, Shin made a series of popular films under Kim Jong-il before seeking asylum in 1986 and resuming his career in South Korea and Hollywood. In Split Screen Korea, Steven Chung illuminates the story of postwa

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction: Visible Ruptures, Invisible Borders; 1 The Century's Illuminations: The Enlightenment Mode in Korean Cinema; 2 Regimes within Regimes: Film and Fashion in the Korean 1950's; 3 Authorship and the Location of Cinema: In the Region of Shin Films; 4 Melodrama and the Scene of Development; 5 "It's All Fake": Shin Sang-ok's North Korean Revisions; Conclusion: Post-development Pictures; Acknowledgments; Notes; Shin Sang-ok Filmography; Bibliography; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-4529-4150-5