New Korean cinema / edited by Chi-Yun Shin and Julian Stringer.

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791.43095195
Title
New Korean cinema / edited by Chi-Yun Shin and Julian Stringer.
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 234 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Notes
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
Contents
Contemporary cultural production in South Korea / Michael Robinson -- The Korean film industry / Darcy Paquet -- Globalization and new Korean cinema / Jeeyoung Shin -- Chunhyang / Hyangjin Lee -- 'Cine-mania' or cinephilia / Soyoung Kim -- Putting Korean cinema in its place / Julian Stringer -- Horror as critique in Tell me something and Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance / Kyu Hyun Kim -- Two of a kind / Chi-Yun Shin -- 'Just because' / Nancy Abelmann and Jung-ah Choi -- All at sea? / Chris Berry -- Peppermint candy / Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park -- The awkward traveler in Turning gate / Kyung Hyun Kim -- Memento mori and other ghostly sexualities / Andrew Grossman and Jooran Lee -- Interethnic romance and political reconciliation in Asako in Ruby shoes / Hye Seung Chung and David Scott Diffrient.
Summary
A wide-ranging analysis of one of the world's most important contemporary film industries, New Korean Cinema adopts a cross-cultural and multi-dimensional perspective and provides a comprehensive overview of the production, circulation and reception of modern South Korean cinema. Together with discussions of Korean society and culture, it considers the political economy of the film industry, strategies of domestic and international distribution and marketing, the consumption of films in diverse reception environments, and the relation of film texts to their cultural, historical and social contexts. Gathering critics from Asia, Europe and North America, New Korean Cinema contributes to the discussion of the complex role played by national and regional cinemas in a global age. It will be of interest to students and critics of Popular Culture and Film Studies as well as East Asian Studies and Korean Studies.
Added Author
Shin, Chi-Yun, editor.
Stringer, Julian, 1966- editor.
Subject
Motion pictures Korea (South) History.
Multimedia
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Summary
A wide-ranging analysis of one of the world's most important contemporary film industries, New Korean Cinema adopts a cross-cultural and multi-dimensional perspective and provides a comprehensive overview of the production, circulation and reception of modern South Korean cinema. Together with discussions of Korean society and culture, it considers the political economy of the film industry, strategies of domestic and international distribution and marketing, the consumption of films in diverse reception environments, and the relation of film texts to their cultural, historical and social contexts. Gathering critics from Asia, Europe and North America, New Korean Cinema contributes to the discussion of the complex role played by national and regional cinemas in a global age. It will be of interest to students and critics of Popular Culture and Film Studies as well as East Asian Studies and Korean Studies.
Notes
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
Contents
Contemporary cultural production in South Korea / Michael Robinson -- The Korean film industry / Darcy Paquet -- Globalization and new Korean cinema / Jeeyoung Shin -- Chunhyang / Hyangjin Lee -- 'Cine-mania' or cinephilia / Soyoung Kim -- Putting Korean cinema in its place / Julian Stringer -- Horror as critique in Tell me something and Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance / Kyu Hyun Kim -- Two of a kind / Chi-Yun Shin -- 'Just because' / Nancy Abelmann and Jung-ah Choi -- All at sea? / Chris Berry -- Peppermint candy / Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park -- The awkward traveler in Turning gate / Kyung Hyun Kim -- Memento mori and other ghostly sexualities / Andrew Grossman and Jooran Lee -- Interethnic romance and political reconciliation in Asako in Ruby shoes / Hye Seung Chung and David Scott Diffrient.
Subject
Motion pictures Korea (South) History.
Multimedia