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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Kim, Kyung Hyun, 1969-     Subjects     Motion pictures -- Korea -- History -- 21st century.     Cultural industries -- Korea -- History -- 21st century.     Popular culture -- Korea -- History -- 21st century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Kim, Kyung Hyun, 1969-       by title:      Virtual hallyu : Kor...         MARC Display

Virtual hallyu : Korean cinema of the global era / Kyung Hyun Kim. by Kim, Kyung Hyun, 1969- Durham : Duke University Press, 2011. Subjects Motion pictures -- Korea -- History -- 21st century.   Cultural industries -- Korea -- History -- 21st century.   Popular culture -- Korea -- History -- 21st century. ISBN:  9780822350880 (cloth : alk. paper) 0822350882 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822351016 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0822351013 (pbk. : alk. paper) Description:  xviii, 255 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Contents:  Introduction : hallyu's virtuality -- Virtual landscapes : Sopyonje, the power of Kangwon province, and the host -- Viral colony: spring of Korean peninsula and epitaph -- Virtual dictatorship : the president's barber and the president's last bang -- Mea culpa : reading the North Korean as an ethnic other -- Hong Sang-Soo's death, eroticism, and virtual nationalism -- Virtual trauma : Lee Chang-Dong's oasis and secret sunshine -- Park Chan-Wook's "unknowable" oldboy -- The end of history, the beginning of historical films : Korea's new sagŭk. Requests:  0 Summary:  In the late 1990s, South Korean film and other cultural products, broadly known as hallyu (Korean wave), gained unprecedented international popularity. Korean films earned an all-time high of $60.3 million in Japan in 2005, and they outperformed their Hollywood competitors at Korean box offices. In Virtual Hallyu, Kyung Hyun Kim reflects on the precariousness of Korean cinema's success over the past decade. Arguing that state film policies and socioeconomic factors cannot fully explain cinema's true potentiality, Kim draws on Deleuze's concept of the virtual--according to which past and present and truth and falsehood coexist--to analyze the temporal anxieties and cinematic ironies embedded in screen figures such as a made-in-the-USA aquatic monster (The Host), a postmodern Chosun-era wizard (Jeon Woo-chi), a schizo man-child (Oasis), a weepy North Korean terrorist (Typhoon), a salary man turned vengeful fighting machine (Oldboy), and a sick nationalist (the repatriated colonial-era film Spring of Korean Peninsula). Kim maintains that the full significance of hallyu can only be understood by exposing the implicit and explicit ideologies of protonationalism and capitalism that, along with Korea's ambiguous post-democratization and neoliberalism, are etched against the celluloid surfaces. -- Book Description.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Art, Music & Recreation 791.4309519 Ki Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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