Rediscovering Korean cinema / edited by Sangjoon Lee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lee, Sangjoon, editor.

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), issuing body.

Series:

Perspectives on contemporary Korea

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Korea (South)--History.

Motion pictures.

History.

Korea (South).

Motion pictures--Korea--History--20th century.

Korea.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 576 pages).

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2019.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Rediscovering Korean Cinema aims to walk its readers through almost over eighty years of Korean cinematic history. The volume traces a path that starts with the under examined early years of film production during the Colonial period (1910-45) and leads to the unprecedented surge of popularity and media consumption of the contemporary "Korean wave." With each chapter taking a close look at a select film across the decades, the contributors explore the rapidly shifting climates: from the scars of military occupation to the division of war, into the specter of autocratic regimes and the challenges of a rapid modernization and economic development. In doing so, the volume hopes to help scholars rediscover (or discover!) Korean cinema and the unique perspectives it provides, into both Korea itself and the international cinematic culture to which it contributes.

Contents:

1 A Brief History of Korean Cinema p. 34 / Cho Junhyoung

2 Sweet Dream (1936) and the Transformation of Cinema in Colonial Korea p. 64 / Brian Yecies

3 Spring in the Korean Peninsula (1941): Transcolonial Mise en Abyme p. 80 / Nayoung Aimee Kwon

4 A Hometown in the Heart (1949): A Meditation on Freedom and Class p. 95 / Juhn Ahn

5 Piagol (1955): Realism and Melodrama in the Anti-communist Film p. 105 / Travis Workman

6 Madame Freedom (1956): Spectatorship and the Modern Woman p. 118 / Christina Klein

7 Flower in Hell (1958): Stylization, Landscape, and the Presence of War p. 132 / Steven Chung

8 The Housemaid (i960): Possessed by the Dispossessed p. 147 / Chris Berry

9 Aimless Bullet (1961): Postwar Dystopia, Canonicity, and Cinema Realism p. 160 / Kelly Y. Jeong

10 Mist (1967): "Art Cinema" under Dictatorship p. 173 / Chung-kang Kim

11 The Road to Sampo (1975): South Korean Mobile Vulgus and Cinematic Affectivity on the Road p. 187 / Hyun Seon Park

12 The March of Fools (1975): The Resistant Spirit and Its Limits p. 201 / Han Sang Kim

13 Declaration of Idiot (1983): Cinema of Censorship and an Accidental Masterpiece p. 215 / Hyangjin Lee

14 Chilsu and Mansu (1988): The Voice of the People p. 233 / Darcy Paquet

15 The Night Before the Strike (1990): The Legendary Minjung Realist Film p. 246 / Nam Lee

16 My Love, My Bride (1990): A Comedy of Remarriage? p. 260 / Jinhee Choi

17 The Murmuring Trilogy (1995-99): Documentary Film as Testimony p. 274 / Hye Jean Chung

18 A Petal (1996): Korean Historiography and the Fetishization of the Past p. 289 / Steve Choe

19 The Power of Kangwon Province (1998): The Sound of Minimalism p. 302 / Julian Stringer

20 Die Bad (2000): Independent Filmmaking by a Cinema Kid p. 315 / Nikki J. Y. Lee

21 Ch'unhyang, Chihwaseon, and Hanji: Im Kwon-taek's Use of Nativist Korean Culture as Allegories of Cinema p. 330 / David E. James

22 My Sassy Girl (2001): The Taming of the Yopki p. 343 / Kukhee Choo

23 Take Care of My Cat (2001): The Architectonics of Female Subjectivity in Post-crisis South Korea p. 358 / Michelle Cho

24 Oldboy (2003): Splendor and Truth in the Perversity p. 371 / Kyu Hyun Kim

25 Repatriation (2003): A Very Personal Division p. 385 / Markus Nornes

26 A Tale of Two Sisters (2003): Sadness and Suffering in South Korean Horror p. 395 / Daniel Martin

27 3-Iron (2004): A Cinema of Paradoxes p. 408 / Hye Seung Chung

28 The Host (2006): Life in Excess p. 423 / Peter Y. Paik

29 Family Ties (2006): Of Journeys and Homes p. 435 / Chi-Yun Shin

30 Secret Sunshine (2007): The Canon, the Criterion Collection, and the Question of Cinematic Religion p. 446 / David Scott Diffrient

31 The Journals of Musan (2010): North Korean Migrants' Masculinity in South Korea p. 461 / Eun Ah Cho

32 Stateless Things (2011): Queer Cinema and the Critique of the Heteronormative Nation-State p. 473 / Ungsan Kim

33 Snowpiercer (2013): The Post-historical Catastrophe of a Biopolitical Ecosystem p. 486 / Seung-hoon Jeong

34 Ode to My Father (2014): Korean War through Cinema p. 502 / Kyung Hyun Kim

35 Train to Busan (2016): Glocalization, Korean Zombies, and a Man-Made Neoliberal Disaster p. 515 / Keith B. Wagner.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472126095

0472126091

OCLC:

1107991392

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