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Virtual hallyu : Korean cinema of the global era / Kyung Hyun Kim.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kim, Kyung Hyun, 1969-
- 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 (278 p.) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A textual account of the hallyu (Korean wave) films popular internationally, especially in Asia, from the late 1990s until 2007 08.
- 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.
- ISBN:
- 9786613293022
- 9781283293020
- 1283293021
- 9780822394600
- 082239460X
- OCLC:
- 757835831
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