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Korean cinema in global contexts : post-colonial phantom, blockbuster and trans-cinema / Soyoung Kim.

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Offering the most comprehensive analysis of Korean cinema from its early history to the present, and including the films of Park Chan-wook, Bong Joon-ho and Kim Ki-young, 'Korean Cinema in Global Contexts: Postcolonial Phantom, Blockbuster and Trans-Cinema' situates itself in the local, In...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Kim, So-yŏng (Lecturer in media arts and cultural contents) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2022]
Series:Critical Asian cinemas.
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Korea > History.
Motion pictures
Korea
History
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Part 1 From Pre-Cinematic Culture to Trans-Cinema
  • 1. Cartography of Catastrophe : Precolonial Surveys, Postcolonial Vampires and the Plight of Korean Modernity
  • 2. The State of Fantasy in Emergency: Fantasmatic Others in South Korean Film
  • 3. Modernity in Suspense: The Logic of Fetishism in Korean Cinema
  • 4. "Do Not Include Me in Your 'Us'" : Peppermint Candy and the Politics of Difference
  • 5. "Cine-mania" or Cinephilia: Film Festivals and the Identity Question
  • 6. The Birth of the Local Feminist Sphere in the Global Era : Yeoseongjang and "Trans-Cinema"
  • Part 2 Korean Cinema in a Trans-Asia Framework
  • 7. Inter-Asia Comparative Framework : Postcolonial Film Historiography in Taiwan and South Korea
  • 8. Postcolonial Genre as Contact Zone: Hwalkuk and Action Cinema
  • 9. Geopolitical Fantasy : Continental (Manchurian) Action Movies during the Cold War Era
  • 10. Anagram of Inter-Asian Korean Film: The Case of My Sassy Girl
  • 11. Comparative Film Studies : Detour, Demon of Comparison and Dislocative Fantasy
  • Index

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