Format:
Online-Ressource (IX, 197 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9780313072307
Content:
Despite its rise in the global market, recent political progress, and a surging interest worldwide, Korean films are relatively unknown and rarely studied. This new work begins by investigating the history, industry structure, and trends of filmmaking in Korea, going on to examine how Hollywood films have affected both Korean mainstream and nonmainstream film industries in terms of both means of production and narrative. Moreover, the authors analyze the ways in which Korean films of recent years have represented the modernization process in Korea itself, as well as the ideological implication
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-194) and index
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Contents; Preface; 1 Korean Cinema: Philosophical Foundations and Theoretical Frameworks; 2 Oppression, Liberation, Censorship, and Depression: History and Major Trends of Korean Cinema from the 1910s to the 1970s; 3 Korean National Cinema in the 1980s: Enlightenment, Political Struggle, Social Realism, and Defeatism; 4 Auteur Criticism: The Case of Sunwoo Jang's Taste of Heaven; 5 Discourses of Modernity and Postmodernity in Contemporary Korean Cinema; 6 Hollywood Imagination, Foreign Films, and Korean Identity: Resistance, Assimilation, and Articulation
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7 Contemporary Korean Cinema: A Boom or a Renaissance?References; Index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 0-275-95811-6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 978-0-275-95811-4
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Korea
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Film
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Geschichte
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