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Virtual Hallyu : Korean Cinema of the Global Era by Kyung Hyun Kim (2011, Trade
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- 9780822351016
- Book Title
- Virtual Hallyu : Korean Cinema of the Global Era
- Item Length
- 9.1in
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Genre
- History, Social Science, Performing Arts
- Topic
- Popular Culture, Asia / Korea, Film / History & Criticism
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 14.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 280 Pages
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"[T]his fine book . . . . enlarges our vision of one of the great national cinematic flowerings of the last decade."--Martin Scorsese, from the foreword 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.
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Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
0822351013
ISBN-13
9780822351016
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Product Key Features
Book Title
Virtual Hallyu : Korean Cinema of the Global Era
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Popular Culture, Asia / Korea, Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year
2011
Genre
History, Social Science, Performing Arts
Number of Pages
280 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.1in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
14.4 Oz
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Pn1993.5.K6k52424
Reviews
"Coming close on the heels of The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema , his seminal analysis of the psychic and political foundations of the New Korean Cinema of the 1990s, Kyung Hyun Kim has now produced the essential text on hallyu, the phase of Korean cinema and related forms of popular culture that became a global sensation in the first decade of the new millennium. Bringing key Deleuzian concepts into focus with sensitive and nuanced readings of international blockbusters, including The Host (Bong Joon-ho) and Oldboy (Park Chan-wook), as well as the work of notable art-cinema auteurs, Kim establishes himself as not just the most important Anglophone critic of South Korean cinema but a key figure in film and cultural studies generally."-- David E. James , author of The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles, " . . . Kim's book is special in that every effort was exerted to select the most relevant topics and issues for readers in a comprehensive and sophisticated way. I would recommend this book because it is a well-written and detail-oriented account of Korean movies . . . As all chapters are very informative and engage in theoretical arguments that are not just descriptive, this book will be very useful to readers who really love Korean films or are film majors in graduate programs and would like to gain a comprehensive knowledge of Korean cinema." , "Coming close on the heels of The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema , his seminal analysis of the psychic and political foundations of the New Korean Cinema of the 1990s, Kyung Hyun Kim has now produced the essential text on hallyu, the phase of Korean cinema and related forms of popular culture that became a global sensation in the first decade of the new millennium. Bringing key Deleuzian concepts into focus with sensitive and nuanced readings of international blockbusters, including The Host (Bong Joon-ho) and Oldboy (Park Chan-wook), as well as the work of notable art-cinema auteurs, Kim establishes himself as not just the most important Anglophone critic of South Korean cinema but a key figure in film and cultural studies generally."- David E. James , author of The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles, "A highly informative and imaginative account of the multifaceted powers of virtuality that make up the unique phenomenon of Korean cinema in the early twenty-first century."-- Rey Chow , author of Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films, "Coming close on the heels of The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema , his seminal analysis of the psychic and political foundations of the New Korean Cinema of the 1990s, Kyung Hyun Kim has now produced the essential text on hallyu , the phase of Korean cinema and related forms of popular culture that became a global sensation in the first decade of the new millennium. Bringing key Deleuzian concepts into focus with sensitive and nuanced readings of international blockbusters including The Host (Bong Joon-ho) and Oldboy (Park Chan-wook) as well as the work of notable art-cinema auteurs, Kim establishes himself as not just the most important Anglophone critic of South Korean cinema, but a key figure in film and cultural studies generally."- David E. James , author of The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles, [T]His Is a Book That Needs to Be Read by Anyone Who Is Interested in the Field [Of Korean Cinema]., "A highly informative and imaginative account of the multifaceted powers of virtuality that make up the unique phenomenon of Korean cinema in the early twenty-first century."-Rey Chow, author of Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films "Coming close on the heels of The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema , his seminal analysis of the psychic and political foundations of the New Korean Cinema of the 1990s, Kyung Hyun Kim has now produced the essential text on hallyu, the phase of Korean cinema and related forms of popular culture that became a global sensation in the first decade of the new millennium. Bringing key Deleuzian concepts into focus with sensitive and nuanced readings of international blockbusters including The Host (Bong Joon-ho) and Oldboy (Park Chan-wook) as well as the work of notable art-cinema auteurs, Kim establishes himself as not just the most important Anglophone critic of South Korean cinema, but a key figure in film and cultural studies generally." David E. James, author of The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles, [A]n impressive work. The book is timely without being trite or merely fashionable and it contains a number of significant theoretical and local insights into the global present without being uselessly obscure to the general reader. Kim's incisive close readings of widely known South Korean productions ( The Host , Old Boy , Secret Sunshine , etc.), as well as the potential to discover new titles, make the book a pleasure to read and to revisit for those inside, outside, or in between Korean studies., "[U]seful discussions of Korean film (and filmmakers) ranging from Kwon-taek Im's Sopyonje (1993) to Chang-dong Lee's Secret Sunshine (2007). Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals." - B. M. McNeal, Choice, "A highly informative and imaginative account of the multifaceted powers of virtuality that make up the unique phenomenon of Korean cinema in the early twenty-first century."- Rey Chow , author of Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films, "[A]n impressive work. The book is timely without being trite or merely fashionable and it contains a number of significant theoretical and local insights into the global present without being uselessly obscure to the general reader. Kim's incisive close readings of widely known South Korean productions ( The Host , Old Boy , Secret Sunshine , etc.), as well as the potential to discover new titles, make the book a pleasure to read and to revisit for those inside, outside, or in between Korean studies." - Travis Workman, Journal of Asian Studies, "The stud[y] by Kyung Hyun Kim discussed in this essay are rich with information and insights but [is] also challenging, almost subversive, to some prevalent views on Korean cinema and literature." - Hyu Hyun Kim, Cross Currents
Table of Content
Foreword / Martin Scorsese ix Preface xi Introduction: Hallyu's Virtuality 1 1. Virtual Landscapes: Sopyonje , The Power of Kangwon Province , and The Host 23 2. Viral Colony: Spring of Korean Peninsula and Epitaph 55 3. Virtual Dictatorship: The President's Barber and The President's Last Bang 81 4. Mea Culpa : Reading the North Korean as an Ethnic Other 101 5. Hong Sang-soo's Death, Eroticism, and Virtual Nationalism 123 6. Virtual Trauma: Lee Chang-dong's Oasis and Secret Sunshine 152 7. Park Chan-wook's "Unknowable" Oldboy 178 8. The End of History, the Beginning of Historical Films Korea's New Sagük 200 Notes 213 Bibliography 235 Index 243
Copyright Date
2011
Lccn
2011-021955
Dewey Decimal
791.4309519
Dewey Edition
23
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Yes
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