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Rediscovering Korean cinema / edited by Sangjoon Lee.

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Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2019]

Motion pictures -- Korea (South) -- History.

Motion pictures -- Korea -- History -- 20th century.

9780472074297 (hardcover)

0472074296 (hardcover)

9780472054299 (paperback)

0472054295 (paperback)

Perspectives on contemporary Korea.

viii, 603 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Brief history of Korean Cinema / Cho Junhyoung -- Sweet Dream (1936) and the transformation of cinema in Colonial Korea / Brian Yecies -- Spring in the Korean Peninsula (1941): Transcolonial Mise en Abyme / Nayoung Aimee Kwon -- Hometown in the Heart (1949): A meditation on freedom and class / Juhn Ahn -- Piagol (1955): Realism and melodrama in the anti-communist film / Travis Workman -- Madame Freedom (1956): Spectatorship and the modern woman / Christina Klein -- Flower in Hell (1958): Stylization, landscape, and the presence of war / Steven Chung -- Housemaid (1960): Possessed by the dispossessed / Chris Berry -- Aimless Bullet (1961): Postwar dystopia, canonicity, and cinema realism / Kelly Y. Jeong -- Mist (1967): "Art Cinema" under dictatorship / Chung-kang Kim -- Road to Sampo (1975): South Korean Mobile Vulgus and cinematic affectivity on the road / Hyun Seon Park -- March of Fools (1975): The resistant spirit and Its limits / Han Sang Kim -- Declaration of Idiot (1983): Cinema of censorship and an accidental masterpiece / Hyangjin Lee -- Chilsu and Mansu (1988): The voice of the people / Darcy Paquet -- Night Before the Strike (1990): The legendary Minjung realist film / Nam Lee -- My Love, My Bride (1990): A comedy of remarriage? / Jinhee Choi -- The Murmuring Trilogy (1995-99): Documentary film as testimony / Hye Jean Chung -- Petal (1996): Korean historiography and the fetishization of the past / Steve Choe -- Power of Kangwon Province (1998): The sound of minimalism / Julian Stringer -- Die Bad (2000): Independent filmmaking by a cinema kid / Nikki J.Y. Lee -- Ch'unhyang, Chihwaseon, and Hanji: Im Kwon-taek's use of nativist Korean culture as allegories of cinema / David E. James -- My Sassy Girl (2001): The taming of the Yŏpki / Kukhee Choo -- Take Care of My Cat (2001): The architectonics of female subjectivity in post-crisis South Korea / Michelle Cho -- Oldboy (2003): Splendor and truth in the perversity / Kyu Hyun Kim -- Repatriation (2003): a very personal division / Markus Nornes -- Tale of Two Sisters (2003): sadness and suffering in South Korean horror / Daniel Martin -- 3-Iron (2004): a cinema of paradoxes / Hye Seung Chung -- Host (2006): life in excess / Peter Y. Paik -- Family Ties (2006): Of journeys and homes / Chi-Yun Shin -- Secret Sunshine (2007): The canon, the Criterion Collection, and the question of cinematic religion / David Scott Diffrient -- Journals of Musan (2010): North Korean migrants' masculinity in South Korea / Eun Ah Cho -- Stateless Things (2011): Queer cinema and the critique of the heteronormative nation-state / Ungsan Kim -- Snowpiercer (2013): The post-historical catastrophe of a biopolitical ecosystem / Seung-hoon Jeong -- Ode to My Father (2014): Korean War through cinema / Kyung Hyun Kim -- Train to Busan (2016): Glocalization, Korean zombies, and a man-made neoliberal disaster / Keith B. Wagner.

"South Korean cinema is a striking example of non-Western contemporary cinematic success. Thanks to the increasing numbers of moviegoers and domestic films produced, South Korea has become one of the world's major film markets. In 2001, the South Korean film industry became the first in recent history to reclaim its domestic market from Hollywood and continues to maintain around a 50 percent market share today. High-quality South Korean films are increasingly entering global film markets and connecting with international audiences in commercial cinemas and art theatres, and at major international film festivals. Despite this growing recognition of the films themselves, Korean cinema's rich heritage has not heretofore received significant scholarly attention in English-language publications. This groundbreaking collection of thirty-five essays by a wide range of academic specialists situates current scholarship on Korean cinema within the ongoing theoretical debates in contemporary global film studies. Chapters explore key films of Korean cinema, from Sweet Dream, Madame Freedom, The Housemaid, and The March of Fools to Oldboy, The Host, and Train to Busan, as well as major directors such as Shin Sang-ok, Kim Ki-young, Im Kwon-taek, Bong Joon-ho, Hong Sang-soo, Park Chan-wook, and Lee Chang-dong. While the chapters provide in-depth analyses of particular films, together they cohere into a detailed and multidimensional presentation of Korean cinema's cumulative history and broader significance. With its historical and critical scope, abundance of new research, and detailed discussion of important individual films, Rediscovering Korean Cinema is at once an accessible classroom text and a deeply informative compendium for scholars of Korean and East Asian studies, cinema and media studies, and communications. It will also be an essential resource for film industry professionals and anyone interested in international cinema"--

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