Here are some of the books we’re looking forward to in 2021. For the first time in one of these posts we’re flagging the indicative cost of the titles listed here. For me, I have a psychological barrier at around £30: a book has to be offering something pretty special for me to be prepared … [Read More]
Publisher: Duke University Press
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Selected publications
- Namhee Lee: Memory Construction and the Politics of Time in Neoliberal South Korea 2022
- Kyung Hyun Kim: Hegemonic Mimicry: Korean Popular Culture of the Twenty-First Century 2021
- Anthology: Queer Korea ed Todd A Henry 2020
- Kim Eunjung: Curative Violence: Rehabilitating Disability, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern Korea 2017
- Youngmin Choe: Tourist Distractions: Traveling and Feeling in Transnational Hallyu Cinema 2016
- Nayoung Aimee Kwon: Intimate Empire: Collaboration and Colonial Modernity in Korea and Japan 2015
- Anthology: The Korean Popular Culture Reader ed Kyung Hyun Kim, Youngmin Choe 2014
- Henry H Em: The Great Enterprise: Sovereignty and Historiography in Modern Korea 2013
- Anthology: Seven Contemporary Plays from the Korean Diaspora in the Americas ed Esther Kim Lee 2012
- Rachael Miyung Joo: Transnational Sport: Gender, Media, and Global Korea 2012
- Kyung Hyun Kim: Virtual Hallyu: Korean Cinema of the Global Era 2011
- Eleana J Kim: Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging 2010
- Jesook Song: South Koreans in the Debt Crisis: The Creation of a Neoliberal Welfare Society 2009
- Ken C Kawashima: The Proletarian Gamble: Korean Workers in Interwar Japan 2009
- Hyun Ok Park: Two Dreams in One Bed: Empire, Social Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria 2005
- Seungsook Moon: Militarized Modernity and Gendered Citizenship in South Korea 2005
- Yuasa Katsuei: Kannani and Document of Flames: Two Japanese Colonial Novels tr Mark Driscoll 2005
- Kyung Hyun Kim: The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema 2004
A look back at our 2020 reading diary
Like many readers, we started the year with good intention of blitzing through the pile of new titles that were promised for the coming months, as well as making inroads into the backlog. And we genuinely got off to a good start with a string of fun K-thrillers, some of them new, some not: The … [Read More]
Kyung Hyun Kim’s Virtual Hallyu: more approachable than Remasculinization, but still tough going
Kyung Hyun Kim: Virtual Hallyu — Korean Cinema of the Global Era Duke University Press Books, 2011. 280pp On Planet Deleuze, a world in a parallel universe inhabited by hyper-intelligent philosophers, psychoanalysts and cultural studies scholars, Kyung Hyun Kim’s second book on Korean film will be voraciously devoured, as no doubt his previous book was. … [Read More]
A new Kyung Hyun Kim book hits the stores soon
I confess that I didn’t much enjoy Kyung Hyun Kim’s first book – The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema – but I’ll still be getting his new one, Virtual Hallyu – Korean Cinema of the Global Era, which is available from Amazon later this month. [Read More]
Yuasa Katsuei: a Japanese colonial novelist
Yuasa Katsuei: Two Japanese Colonial Novels Kannani (1934), Document of Flames (1935). Translated by Mark Driscoll, Duke University Press (2005) Yuasa Katsuei was born in Japan in 1910 and before his second birthday moved to Korea where his father worked in the colonial police force. He went to university in Tokyo from 1929, before returning … [Read More]
Fetishes, Phalluses and Mini-skirts – a review of The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema
Kyung Hyun Kim: The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema Duke University Press, 2004 This book is for a restricted academic readership only. I can empathise with the feeling of inadequacy, crisis and male lack which, according to Kim, plagues the majority of protagonists in Korean film (though there is a difference between me and them, namely … [Read More]