Korean Film History, Resistance, and Democratic Imagination

Name: Korean Film History, Resistance, and Democratic Imagination
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ISBN: 9780275958114

ISBN-10: 0275958116

ISBN-13: 9780275958114

Edition: 2002

Authors: Eungjun Min, Jinsook Joo, Han Ju Kwak

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Despite its rise in the global market, recent political progress, and a surging interest worldwide, Korean films are relatively unknown and rarely studied. This new work begins by investigating the history, industry structure, and trends of filmmaking in Korea, going on to examine how Hollywood films have affected both Korean mainstream and nonmainstream film industries in terms of both means of production and narrative. Moreover, the authors analyze the ways in which Korean films of recent years have represented the modernization process in Korea itself, as well as the ideological implications that arise from the cinematic constructions of Korean imagination. More than a mere chronological…

Book details

Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/30/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Preface



Korean Cinema: Philosophical Foundations and Theoretical Frameworks



Oppression, Liberation, Censorship, and Depression: History and Major Trends of Korean Cinema from the 1910s to the 1970s



Korean National Cinema in the 1980s: Enlightenment, Political Struggle, Social Realism, and Defeatism



Auteur Criticism: The Case of Sunwoo Jang's Taste of Heaven



Discourses of Modernity and Postmodernity in Contemporary Korean Cinema



Hollywood Imagination, Foreign Films, and Korean Identity: Resistance, Assimilation, and Articulation



Contemporary Korean Cinema: A Boom or a Renaissance?


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Index