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Virtual Hallyu – Korean Cinema of the Global Era de Kyung Hyun Kim

Virtual Hallyu – Korean Cinema of the Global Era

Autor Kyung Hyun Kim
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 oct 2011
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 co-exist, 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 (Woochi), a schizo man-child (Oasis), a weepy North Korean terrorist (Typhoon), a salary man-turned-vengeful fighting machine (Oldboy), and a repatriated colonial-era nationalist (Spring of Korean Peninsula). Kim maintains that the full significance of hallyu can only be understood by exposing the implicit and explicit ideologies of proto-nationalism and capitalism that, along with Korea’s ambiguous post-democratization and neo-liberalism, are etched against the celluloid surfaces.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822351016
ISBN-10: 0822351013
Pagini: 280
Ilustrații: 57 photographs, 3 tables, 6 figures
Dimensiuni: 156 x 232 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

Cuprins

PrefaceIntroduction: Hallyu’s Virtuality1. Virtual Landscapes: Sopyonje, The Power of Kangwon Province, and The Host2. Viral Colony: Spring of Korean Peninsula and Epitaph3. Virtual Dictatorship: The President’s Barber and The President’s Last Bang4. Mea Culpa: Reading the North Korean as an Ethnic Other5. Hong Sang-soo’s Death, Eroticism, and Virtual Nationalism6. Virtual Trauma: Lee Chang-dong’s Oasis and Secret Sunshine7. Park Chan-wook’s “Unknowable” Oldboy8. The End of History, the Beginning of Historical Films: Korea’s New SagukNotes; Bibliography; Index

Recenzii

“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

“Kyung Hyun Kim seems well placed to write an interesting study of contemporary Korean cinema. The UC Irvine professor has already written one book on the subject, The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema (Duke University Press, 2004), produced a number of films (including Im Sang-soo’s recent high profile remake of The Housemaid[2010]), and is impressively connected within the Korean film industry.” - Mike Walsh, Screening the Past, July 2012


"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 "Kyung Hyun Kim seems well placed to write an interesting study of contemporary Korean cinema. The UC Irvine professor has already written one book on the subject, The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema (Duke University Press, 2004), produced a number of films (including Im Sang-soo's recent high profile remake of The Housemaid[2010]), and is impressively connected within the Korean film industry." - Mike Walsh, Screening the Past, July 2012

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Maintains that the full significance of hallyu can only be understood by exposing the implicit and explicit ideologies of proto-nationalism and capitalism