New Korean Cinema

Chi-Yun Shin, Julian Stringer

NYU Press, 2005 - Performing Arts - 234 pages

Korean film has been heralded as the “newest tiger” of Asian cinema. In the past year, South Korea became one of the only countries in the world in which local films outsold Hollywood films, and Korean director Park Chan-wook was awarded the Grand Prix at Cannes.
New Korean Cinema provides a comprehensive overview of the production, circulation, and reception of this vibrant cinema, which has begun to flourish again in the past decade, following the lifting of repressive government policies. In addition to providing a cultural, historical, and social context for understanding this burgeoning cinema, the book considers the political economy of South Korea's film industry, strategies of domestic and international distribution and marketing, and the consumption of Korean films throughout the world. The volume also includes a glossary of key terms and a bibliography of works on Korean cinema.
New Korean Cinema gathers prominent critics from North America, Asia, and Europe to make sense of this exploding film industry. This book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the complex roles played by national and regional cinemas in a global age.

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• Vanishing: 15
• 1992 to the Present: 32
• Globalisation and New Korean Cinema: 51
• Marketing an Old Tradition in New Korean Cinema: 63
• Film Festivals and the Identity: 79
• Genre Classifications and: 95
• Horror as Critique in Tell Me Something and Sympathy: 106
• Comedy Melodrama and Youth Violence in Attack: 132
• The Will Not to Forget: 159
• Memento Mori and Other Ghostly Sexualities: 180
• Interethnic Romance and Political Reconciliation in Asako: 193
• Glossary of Key Terms: 210
• Websites: 228

About the author

Chi-Yun Shin is lecturer in film studies at Sheffield Hallam University, U.K. Julian Stringer is lecturer in film studies at the University of Nottingham, U.K. He is the editor of Movie Blockbusters.

Bibliographic information

• Title: New Korean Cinema
• Editors: Chi-Yun Shin, Julian Stringer
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: NYU Press, 2005
• ISBN: 0814740308, 9780814740309
• Length: 234 pages
• Subjects: Performing Arts / Film / General; Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism; Performing Arts / Film / Regional & National; Social Science / Popular Culture