Rediscovering Korean cinema / edited by Sangjoon Lee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lee, Sangjoon, editor.

Series:

Perspectives on contemporary Korea.

Perspectives on contemporary Korea

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (612 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2019]

Summary:

South Korean cinema is a striking example of non-Western contemporary cinematic success.Thanks to the increasing numbers of moviegoers and domestic films produced, South Korea has become one of the world's major film markets.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction: Rediscovering Korean Cinema

1. A Brief History of Korean Cinema

2. Sweet Dream (1936) and the Transformation of Cinema in Colonial Korea

3. Spring in the Korean Peninsula (1941): Transcolonial Mise en Abyme

4. A Hometown in the Heart (1949): A Meditation on Freedom and Class

5. Piagol (1955): Realism and Melodrama in the Anti-communist Film

6. Madame Freedom (1956): Spectatorship and the Modern Woman

7. Flower in Hell (1958): Stylization, Landscape, and the Presence of War

8. The Housemaid (1960): Possessed by the Dispossessed

9. Aimless Bullet (1961): Postwar Dystopia, Canonicity, and Cinema Realism

10. Mist (1967): "Art Cinema" under Dictatorship

11. The Road to Sampo (1975): South Korean Mobile Vulgus and Cinematic Affectivity on the Road

12. The March of Fools (1975): The Resistant Spirit and Its Limits

13. Declaration of Idiot (1983):Cinema of Censorship and an Accidental Masterpiece

14. Chilsu and Mansu (1988): The Voice of the People

15. The Night Before the Strike (1990): The Legendary Minjung Realist Film

16. My Love, My Bride (1990): A Comedy of Remarriage?

17. The Murmuring Trilogy (1995-99): Documentary Film as Testimony

18. A Petal (1996): Korean Historiography and the Fetishization of the Past

19. The Power of Kangwon Province (1998): The Sound of Minimalism

20. Die Bad (2000): Independent Filmmaking by a Cinema Kid

21. Ch'unhyang, Chihwaseon, and Hanji: Im Kwon-taek's Use of Nativist Korean Culture as Allegories of Cinema

22. My Sassy Girl (2001): The Taming of the Yŏpki

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

24. Oldboy (2003): Splendor and Truth in the Perversity

25. Repatriation (2003): A Very Personal Division.

26. A Tale of Two Sisters (2003): Sadness and Suffering in South Korean Horror

27. 3-Iron(2004): A Cinema of Paradoxes

28. The Host (2006): Life in Excess

29. Family Ties (2006): Of Journeys and Homes

30. Secret Sunshine (2007): The Canon, the Criterion Collection, and the Question of Cinematic Religion

31. The Journals of Musan (2010): North Korean Migrants' Masculinity in South Korea

32. Stateless Things (2011): Queer Cinema and the Critique of the Heteronormative Nation-State

33. Snowpiercer (2013): The Post-historical Catastrophe of a Biopolitical Ecosystem

34. Ode to My Father (2014): Korean War through Cinema

35. Train to Busan (2016): Glocalization, Korean Zombies, and a Man-Made Neoliberal Disaster

Chronology of Korean Cinema

Filmography

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

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OCLC:

1107991392