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"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. In 2001, the South Korean film industry became the first in recent history to reclaim its domestic market from Hollywood and continues to maintain around a 50 percent market share today. High-quality South Korean films are increasingly entering global film markets and connecting with international audiences in commercial cinemas and art theatres, and at major international film festivals. Despite this growing recognition of the films themselves, Korean cinema's rich heritage has not heretofore received significant scholarly attention in English-language publications. This groundbreaking collection of thirty-five essays by a wide range of academic specialists situates current scholarship on Korean cinema within the ongoing theoretical debates in contemporary global film studies. Chapters explore key films of Korean cinema, from Sweet Dream, Madame Freedom, The Housemaid, and The March of Fools to Oldboy, The Host, and Train to Busan, as well as major directors such as Shin Sang-ok, Kim Ki-young, Im Kwon-taek, Bong Joon-ho, Hong Sang-soo, Park Chan-wook, and Lee Chang-dong. While the chapters provide in-depth analyses of particular films, together they cohere into a detailed and multidimensional presentation of Korean cinema's cumulative history and broader significance. With its historical and critical scope, abundance of new research, and detailed discussion of important individual films, Rediscovering Korean Cinema is at once an accessible classroom text and a deeply informative compendium for scholars of Korean and East Asian studies, cinema and media studies, and communications. It will also be an essential resource for film industry professionals and anyone interested in international cinema"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: rediscovering Korean cinema
• A brief history of Korean cinema
• Sweet Dream (1936) and the transformation of cinema in colonial Korea
• Spring in the Korean Peninsula (1941): transcolonial mise en abyme
• A Hometown in the Heart (1949): a meditation of freedom and class
• Piagol (1955): realism and melodrama in the anti-communist film
• Madame Freedom (1956): spectatorship and the modern woman
• Flower in Hell (1958): stylization, landscape, and the presence of war
• The Housemaid (1960): possessed by the dispossessed
• Aimless Bullet (1961): postwar dystopia, canonicity, and cinema realism
• Mist (1967): "art cinema" under dictatorship
• The Road to Sampo (1975): South Korean mobile vulgus and cinematic affectivity on the road
• The March of Fools (1975): the resistant spirit and its limits
• Declaration of idiot (1983): cinema of censorship and an accidental masterpiece
• Chilsu and Mansu (1988): the voice of the people
• The Night Before the Strike (1990): the legendary minjung realist film
• My Love, My Bride (1990): a comedy of remarriage?
• The Murmuring Trilogy (1995-99): documentary film as testimony
• A petal (1996): Korean historiography and the fetishization of the past
• The Power of Kangwon Province (1998): the sound of minimalism

• Die Bad (2000): independent filmmaking by a cinema kid
• Ch'unhyang, Chihwaseon, and Hanji: im Kwon-taek's use of nativist Korean culture as allegories of cinema
• My Sassy Girl (2001): the taming of the Yŏpki
• Take Care of My Cat (2001): the architectonics of female subjectivity in post-crisis South Korea
• Oldboy (2003): splendor and truth in the perversity
• Repatriation (2003): a very personal division
• A Tale of Two Sisters (2003): sadness and suffering in South Korean horror
• 3-Iron (2004): a cinema of paradoxes
• The Host (2006): life in excess
• Family Ties (2006): of journeys and homes
• Secret Sunshine (2007): the canon, the criterion collection, and the question of cinematic religion
• The Journals of Musan (2010): North Korean migrants' masculinity in South Korea
• Stateless Things (2011): queer cinema and the critique of the heteronormative nation-state
• Snowpiercer (2013): the post-historical catastrophe of a biopolitical ecosystem
• Ode to My Father (2014): Korean War through cinema
• Train to Busan (2016): glocalization, Korean zombies, and a man-made neoliberal disaster
• Chronology of Korean cinema
• Filmography
• Contributors
• Index.

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Contributors:

Lee, Sangjoon , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Rediscovering Korean cinema (Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2019 — ISBN 9780472074297; LCCN 2019025067)

Related Series:

Perspectives on contemporary Korea

Subjects:

Motion pictures — Korea (South) — History

Motion pictures — Korea — History — 20th century

1900-1999

Motion pictures

Korea

Korea (South)

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 07, 2020).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

PN1993.5.K6 R43 2019eb

ISBNs:

0472126091 (electronic book)
9780472126095 (electronic book)
9780472074297 (hardcover) [Invalid]
0472074296 (hardcover) [Invalid]
9780472054299 (paperback) [Invalid]
0472054295 (paperback) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2019025068

OCLC Numbers:

1107128448