ReFocus: The Films of Yim Soon-rye / edited by Molly Kim.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kim, Molly, Editor.

Series:

Refocus

ReFocus

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture producers and directors.

filmmakers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.) : 10 B/W illustrations 10 B&W images.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2023]

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

Amidst the male-dominated South Korean cinema and the film industry, Yim Soon-rye has consistently produced critically and commercially influential films, has been recognized at numerous film festivals and has achieved awards both in and outside of Korea. She has produced or directed over a dozen films including shorts - the highest number that any woman director has ever achieved in Korea. She is also only Korean female director with a large budget tentpole film (Gyoseob, tentatively scheduled to be released in 2021) under her belt. Refocus: The Films of Yim Soon-rye is the first English-language book that provides critical readings of Yim's work and addresses and positions her in the larger historical context of Korean cinema and women filmmakers in the world.

Contents:

“Ugly men shall prevail”: representations of masculinity in the films of Yim Soon-rye / Hwang Kyun-min

Politics of slow: Yim Soon-rye’s Promenade in the Rain (1994) and Waikiki Brothers (2001) / Kim Chung-kang

The cinematic naturecultural turn in South Korea: ecofeminist pastoralism in the works of Yim Soon-rye / Lee Yun-jong

The woman with a movie camera: dismantling the male gaze in Yim Soon-rye’s The Whistleblower and The Weight of Her / Margaret Rhee

Dropping-out and truth-telling (both acts rather unpopular): sovereignty, biopolitics and critique of the nation-state in Yim Soon-rye’s South Bound (2013) and The Whistleblower (2014) / Kim Kyu-hyun

Sensory connections between food and femininity in Yim Soon-rye’s Little Forest and Lee Seo-gun’s The Recipe / Bonnie Tilland

“I want to live a life that I choose”: romanticized queer family and nature in Little Forest (2018) / Kwon Jungmin

Korean cinema and me: an interview with Yim Soon-rye / Molly Kim.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed April 27, 2026).

Other Format:

print version: ReFocus.

ISBN:

9781399513098

1399513095

9781399513081

1399513087

OCLC:

1408681543

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license