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Korean Cinema in Global Contexts : Post-Colonial Phantom, Blockbuster and Trans-Cinema / Soyoung Kim.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical Asian Cinemas ; 3Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (212 p.)Content type:
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  • 9789048553112
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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
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.
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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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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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