Kim Virtual Hallyu

Korean Cinema of the Global Era
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9460-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 276 Seiten

A textual account of the hallyu (Korean wave) films popular internationally, especially in Asia, from the late 1990s until 200708.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kim, Kyung Hyun

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword / Martin Scorsese ix

Preface xi

Introduction: Hallyu's Virtuality 1

1. Virtual Landscapes: Sopyonje, The Power of Kangwon Province, and The Host 23

2. Viral Colony: Spring of Korean Peninsula and Epitaph 55

3. Virtual Dictatorship: The President's Barber and The President's Last Bang 81

4. Mea Culpa: Reading the North Korean as an Ethnic Other 101

5. Hong Sang-soo's Death, Eroticism, and Virtual Nationalism 123

6. Virtual Trauma: Lee Chang-dong's Oasis and Secret Sunshine 152

7. Park Chan-wook's "Unknowable" Oldboy 178

8. The End of History, the Beginning of Historical Films Korea's New Sagük 200

Notes 213

Bibliography 235

Index 243

Über Autor(innen)

Kyung Hyun Kim is Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and Director of the Critical Theory Emphasis at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema, also published by Duke University Press, and a co-producer of the award-winning feature films The Housemaid and Never Forever.