The remasculinization of Korean cinema / Kyung Hyun Kim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kim, Kyung Hyun, 1969-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Asia-Pacific.

Asia-Pacific

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Korea (South).

Motion pictures.

Men in motion pictures.

Masculinity in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Argues that although the last two decades of Korean history were a period of progress in political democratization, the country refused to part from a "masculine point of view" which is also mirrored in Korean cinema.

Contents:

I. Genres of post-trauma ; 1. At the edge of a metropolis in A fine, windy day and Green fish ; 2. Nowhere to run: disenfranchised men on the road in The man with three coffins, Sopyonje, and Out to the world ; 3. "Is this how the war is remembered?": violent sex and Korean War in Silver stallion, Spring in my hometown, and The Taebaek Mountains ; 4. Post-trauma and historical remembrance in A single spark and A petal

II. New Korean cinema auteurs ; 5. Male crisis in the early films of Park Kwang-su ; 6. Jang Sun-woo's Three "F" words: familism, fetishism, and fascism ; 7. Too early/too Late: temporality and repetition in Hong Sang-su's films

III. Fin-de-siecle anxieties ; 8. Lethal work: domestic space and gender troubles in Happy end and The housemaid ; 9. "Each man kills the thing he loves": transgressive agents, national security, and blockbuster aesthetics in Shiri and Joint security area.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-312) and index.

Filmography: p. [313]-319.

ISBN:

9786612921117

9781282921115

1282921118

9780822385585

0822385589

OCLC:

220950474