Virtual hallyu : Korean cinema of the global era / Kyung Hyun Kim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kim, Kyung Hyun, 1969- author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Korea--History--21st century.

Motion pictures.

Cultural industries--Korea--History--21st century.

Cultural industries.

Popular culture--Korea--History--21st century.

Popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 255 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Durham [North Carolina] : Duke University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

A textual account of the hallyu (Korean wave) films popular internationally, especially in Asia, from the late 1990s until 2007 08.

In the late 1990s, South Korean film and other cultural products, broadly known as hallyu (Korean wave), gained unprecedented international popularity. Korean films earned an all-time high of $60.3 million in Japan in 2005, and they outperformed their Hollywood competitors at Korean box offices. In Virtual Hallyu, Kyung Hyun Kim reflects on the precariousness of Korean cinema's success over the past decade. Arguing that state film policies and socioeconomic factors cannot fully explain cinema's true potentiality, Kim draws on Deleuze's concept of the virtual--according to which past and present and truth and falsehood coexist--to analyze the temporal anxieties and cinematic ironies embedded in screen figures such as a made-in-the-USA aquatic monster (The Host), a postmodern Chosun-era wizard (Jeon Woo-chi), a schizo man-child (Oasis), a weepy North Korean terrorist (Typhoon), a salary man turned vengeful fighting machine (Oldboy), and a sick nationalist (the repatriated colonial-era film Spring of Korean Peninsula). Kim maintains that the full significance of hallyu can only be understood by exposing the implicit and explicit ideologies of protonationalism and capitalism that, along with Korea's ambiguous post-democratization and neoliberalism, are etched against the celluloid surfaces.

Contents:

Introduction: Hallyu's virtuality

Virtual landscapes : Sopyonje, the power of Kangwon province, and the host

Viral colony: spring of Korean peninsula and epitaph

Virtual dictatorship : the president's barber and the president's last bang

Mea culpa : reading the North Korean as an ethnic other

Hong Sang-Soo's death, eroticism, and virtual nationalism

Virtual trauma : Lee Chang-Dong's oasis and secret sunshine

Park Chan-Wook's "unknowable" oldboy

The end of history, the beginning of historical films : Korea's new sag?k.

Notes:

Description based on print version record

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Digitalia, viewed March 4, 2024)

ISBN:

9786613293022

9781283293020

1283293021

9780822394600

082239460X

OCLC:

757835831