Korean cinema in global contexts : postcolonial phantom, blockbuster, and trans-cinema / Soyoung Kim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kim, So-yŏng, 1961- author.

Series:

Critical Asian cinemas.

Critical Asian cinemas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Motion pictures.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2025.

Summary:

Offering the most comprehensive analysis of Korean cinema from its early history to the present, and including the films of Park Chan-wook, Bong Joon-ho and Kim Ki-young, <i>Korean Cinema in Global Contexts: Postcolonial Phantom, Blockbuster and Trans-Cinema</i> situates itself in the local, Inter-Asian, and transnational contexts by mobilizing the critical frameworks of feminism, postcolonial critique and comparative film studies. It is attentive to an enmeshment of the cinematic, aesthetics, politics and cultural history.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part 1 From Pre-Cinematic Culture to Trans-Cinema

1. Cartography of Catastrophe : Precolonial Surveys, Postcolonial Vampires and the Plight of Korean Modernity

2. The State of Fantasy in Emergency: Fantasmatic Others in South Korean Film

3. Modernity in Suspense: The Logic of Fetishism in Korean Cinema

4. “Do Not Include Me in Your ‘Us’” : Peppermint Candy and the Politics of Difference

5. “Cine-mania” or Cinephilia: Film Festivals and the Identity Question

6. The Birth of the Local Feminist Sphere in the Global Era : Yeoseongjang and “Trans-Cinema”

Part 2 Korean Cinema in a Trans-Asia Framework

7. Inter-Asia Comparative Framework : Postcolonial Film Historiography in Taiwan and South Korea

8. Postcolonial Genre as Contact Zone: Hwalkuk and Action Cinema

9. Geopolitical Fantasy : Continental (Manchurian) Action Movies during the Cold War Era

10. Anagram of Inter-Asian Korean Film: The Case of My Sassy Girl

11. Comparative Film Studies : Detour, Demon of Comparison and Dislocative Fantasy

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and other sources; title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 Nov 2022).

ISBN:

1-003-69856-5

90-485-6193-0

90-485-5311-3

9781003698562

OCLC:

1336402707