Shin, Chi-Yun.

New Korean Cinema. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (247 pages)

Intro -- CONTENTS -- Notes on the Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part I Forging a New Cinema -- 1. Contemporary Cultural Production in South Korea: Vanishing Meta-Narratives of Nation -- 2. The Korean Film Industry: 1992 to the Present -- 3. Globalisation and New Korean Cinema -- 4. Chunhyang: Marketing an Old Tradition in New Korean Cinema -- 5. 'Cine-Mania' or Cinephilia Film Festivals and the Identity Question -- Part II Generic Transformations -- 6. Putting Korean Cinema in its Place: Genre Classifications and the Contexts of Reception -- 7. Horror as Critique in Tell Me Something and Sympathy for Mr Vengeance -- 8. Two of a Kind: Gender and Friendship in Friend and Take Care of My Cat -- 9. 'Just Because': Comedy, Melodrama and Youth Violence in Attack the Gas Station -- 10. All at Sea? National History and Historiology in Soul's Protest and Phantom, The Submarine -- PART III SOCIAL CHANGE AND CIVIL SOCIETY -- 11. Peppermint Candy: The Will Not to Forget -- 12. The Awkward Traveller in Turning Gate -- 13 Memento Mori and Other Ghostly Sexualities -- 14. Interethnic Romance and Political Reconciliation in Asasko in Ruby Shoes -- Glossary of Key Terms -- Bibliography of Works on Korean Cinema -- Websites -- Index.

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9781474472579


Motion pictures-Korea (South).


Electronic books.

PN1993.5.K6 .N49 2005

791.43/095195