From the publisher’s website: Immediately following the Korean War, South Korea’s film industry flourished with vibrant local production of high-quality films. Characterized by its stunning melodramas, this “Golden Age” of South Korean cinema produced a body of work as historically, aesthetically, and politically significant as that of other well-known national film movements such as Italian … [Read More]
Booklist: Film and TV (page 6)
The Cinema of Japan and Korea
From the back cover: The Cinema of Japan and Korea provides a timely introduction to the history and continuing vibrancy of Japanese and Korean film. The 24 concise and informative essays each appraoch an individual film or documentary, together offering a unique insight into the cinematic output of these two countries. With a range that … [Read More]
The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema
From the publisher’s website: In one of the first English-language studies of Korean cinema to date, Kyung Hyun Kim shows how the New Korean Cinema of the past quarter century has used the trope of masculinity to mirror the profound sociopolitical changes in the country. Since 1980, South Korea has transformed from an insular, authoritarian … [Read More]
Korean Film: History, Resistance, and Democratic Imagination
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 … [Read More]
Im Kwon-Taek: The Making of a Korean National Cinema
From the publisher’s website: Korean cinema was virtually unavailable to the West during the Japanese colonial period (1910-1945), and no film made before 1943 has been recovered even though Korea had an active film-making industry that produced at least 240 films. For a period of forty years, after Korea was liberated from colonialism, a time … [Read More]
Contemporary Korean Cinema: Culture, Identity and Politics
From the publisher’s website: The first in-depth, comprehensive study of Korean cinema offering original insight into the relationships between ideology and the art of cinema from East Asian perspectives. Combines issues of contemporary Korean culture and cinematic representation of the society and people in both North and South Korea. Covers the introduction of motion pictures … [Read More]
Remembering the Forgotten War: The Korean War Through Literature and Art
From the publisher’s website: In contrast to the many books that use military, diplomatic, and historic language in analyzing the Korean War, this book takes a cultural approach that emphasizes the human dimension of the war, an approach that especially features Korean voices. There are chapters on Korean art on the war, translations into English … [Read More]
The History of Korean Cinema
From the back cover: This book is the first English edition which describes the history of Korean motion pictures. The Motion Picture Promotion Corporation is very much indebted to world film men for this book, who are deeply interested in Korean film, especially today. This fact is the same case with the author of this … [Read More]
Seoul Stirring: 5 Korean Directors
This catalogue, based on a festival held at the ICA from 21 October to 10 November 1994, provides a survey of contemporary Korean cinema and offers background information and material on 5 key Korean directors: Im Kwon-Taek, Jang Sun-Woo, Kim Ui-Seok, Lee Myung-Se and Park Kwang-Su. [Read More]