Seoul searching [[electronic resource] ] : culture and identity in contemporary Korean cinema / / Frances Gateward, editor

• Pubblicazione: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (330 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.43095195
• Soggetto topico: Motion pictures - Korea (South); Culture in motion pictures
• Altri autori: GatewardFrances K
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Seoul Searching -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1. Industry Trends and Popular Genres -- 1. Korean Cinema after Liberation: Production, Industry, and Regulatory Trends -- 2. Christmas in August and Korean Melodrama -- 3. Storming the Big Screen: The Shiri Syndrome -- 4. Timeless, Bottomless Bad Movies: Or, Consuming Youth in the New Korean Cinema -- PART 2. Directing New Korean Cinema -- 5. Scream and Scream Again: Korean Modernity as a House of Horrors in the Films of Kim Ki-young -- 6. Forgetting to Remember, Remembering to Forget: The Politics of Memory and Modernityin the Fractured Films of Lee Chang-dongand Hong Sang-soo -- 7. Reflexivity and Identity Crisisin Park Chul-soo's Farewell, My Darling -- 8. Nowhere to Hide: The Tumultuous Materialism of Lee Myung-se -- 9. Closing The Circle: Why Has Bodhidharma Left For The East? -- PART 3. Narratives of the National -- 10. Waiting to Exhale: The Colonial Experience and theTrouble with My Own Breathing -- 11. Crossing the Border to the "Other" Side: Dynamics of Interaction betweenNorth and South Koreans in Spy Li Cheol-jin and Joint Security Area -- 12. Race, Gender, and Postcolonial Identity in Kim Ki-duk'sAddress Unknown -- 13. Transgressing Boundaries: From Sexual Abuse to Eating Disorders in 301/302 -- 14. Taking the Plunge: Representing Queer Desire in Contemporary South Korean Cinema -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
• Sommario/riassunto: Korean cinema as industry, art form, and cultural product.
• Titolo autorizzato: Seoul searching
• ISBN: 0-7914-7933-1; 1-4356-2689-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817613503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: SUNY series, horizons of cinema.