| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Series |
Critical Asian cinemas
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Critical Asian cinemas.
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| Summary |
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, Inter-Asian, and transnational contexts by mobilizing the critical frameworks of feminism, postcolonial critique and comparative film studies. It is attentive to an enmeshment of the cinematic, aesthetics, politics and cultural history. |
| 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 |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Korea -- History.
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Film theory and criticism. |
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Asian history. |
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ART / Film & Video. |
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Motion pictures |
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Korea |
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Film history, theory or criticism. |
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Asian history. |
| Indexed Term |
Trans-Cinema in translation and in media, comparative film studies in Inter-Asia contexts, phantom cinema of postcolonial archive. |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kim, Soyoung Korean Cinema in Global Contexts Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,c2022 |
| ISBN |
9789048553112 electronic book |
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9048553113 electronic book |
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