The South Korean Film Renaissance

Release on 2010-03-01 | by Jinhee Choi

This book provides both an industrial and an aesthetic account of how the Korean film industry managed to turn an economic crisis—triggered in part by globalizing processes in the world film industry—into a fiscal and cultural boom.

Author: Jinhee Choi
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819569868
Category: Performing Arts
Page: 264
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The South Korean Film Renaissance

For the past decade, the Korean film industry has enjoyed a renaissance. With innovative storytelling and visceral effects, Korean films not only have been commercially viable in the domestic and regional markets but also have appealed to cinephiles everywhere on the international festival circuit. This book provides both an industrial and an aesthetic account of how the Korean film industry managed to turn an economic crisis—triggered in part by globalizing processes in the world film industry—into a fiscal and cultural boom. Jinhee Choi examines the ways in which Korean film production companies, backed by affluent corporations and venture capitalists, concocted a variety of winning production trends. Through close analyses of key films, Choi demonstrates how contemporary Korean cinema portrays issues immediate to its own Korean audiences while incorporating the transnational aesthetics of Hollywood and other national cinemas such as Hong Kong and Japan. Appendices include data on box office rankings, numbers of films produced and released, market shares, and film festival showings.

Language: en
Pages: 264

The South Korean Film Renaissance

Authors: Jinhee Choi

Categories: Performing Arts

Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-03-01 - Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Language: en
Pages: 612

Rediscovering Korean Cinema

Authors: Sangjoon Lee

Categories: Performing Arts

Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-12-20 - Publisher: University of Michigan Press

South Korean cinema is a striking example of non-Western contemporary cinematic success. Thanks to the increasing numbers of moviegoers and domestic films produced, South Korea has become one of the world’s major film markets. In 2001, the South Korean film industry became the first in recent history to reclaim its

Language: en
Pages: 336

The Intimacies of Conflict

Authors: Daniel Y. Kim

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-11-03 - Publisher: NYU Press

Enables a reckoning with the legacy of the Forgotten War through literary and cinematic works of cultural memory Though often considered “the forgotten war,” lost between the end of World War II and the start of the Cold War, the Korean War was, as Daniel Y. Kim argues, a watershed

Language: en
Pages: 350

Household Horror

Authors: Marc Olivier

Categories: Performing Arts

Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-02-11 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

Take a tour of the house where a microwave killed a gremlin, a typewriter made Jack a dull boy, a sewing machine fashioned Carrie's prom dress, and houseplants might kill you while you sleep. In Household Horror: Cinematic Fear and the Secret Life of Everyday Objects, Marc Olivier highlights the