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New Korean Cinema
Edited by Chi-Yun Shin and Julian Stringer
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A wide-ranging analysis of one of the world's most important contemporary film industries
• Provides new insights into the relations forged between cinema and civil society since the early 1990s
• Considers innovative and timely areas of concern such as globalization, transnationalism and new media
• Contains in-depth analyses of key films like Chunhyang, Memento Mori, Peppermint Candy and Take Care of My Cat
• Includes a glossary of key terms and bibliography of works on Korean cinema
• Illustrated with 24 black-and-white stills
New Korean Cinema adopts a cross-cultural and multi-dimensional perspective and provides a comprehensive overview of the production, circulation and reception of modern South Korean cinema. Together with discussions of Korean society and culture, it considers the political economy of the film industry, strategies of domestic and international distribution and marketing, the consumption of films in diverse reception environments, and the relation of film texts to their cultural, historical and social contexts. Gathering critics from Asia, Europe and North America, New Korean Cinema contributes to the discussion of the complex role played by national and regional cinemas in a global age. It will be of interest to students and critics of Popular Culture and Film Studies as well as East Asian Studies and Korean Studies.
Press Reviews:
A vital addition to the body of work available to those teaching Asian cinema in the west. It is a clearly structured and well written series of approaches to Korean Cinema.– Screening the Past
New Korean Cinema offers an invaluable collection of essays, with a well-chosen balance of topics and approaches. This volume is likely to be the first stop for anyone interested in academic writing on this subjet, and the range of saays here provides an excellent introduction to the topic... New Korean Cinema is a timely and essential contribution to this most important field of study.– Daniel Martin, University of East Anglia, UK, New Review of Film and Television Studies
New Korean Cinema avoids the pitfall of identifying an emerging national cinema as a unifield film movement with a handful of auteurs, a recognizable film style, and discernible themes. The essays approach contemporary Korean cinema relationally, by paying proper attention to the diverging reception of Korean films by domestic and international audiences... the essays collected in this anthology are useful in both providing a bacjground to the industry and launching discussion and debate about individaul films. This anthology certainly helps demonstrate why Korean cinema is worthy of the critical and commercial attention that it currently receives.– Jinhee Choi, Carleton University, New Review of Film and Television Studies
Among the most popular cinemas in Asia and increasingly visible and influential in Europe and the US, recent films from South Korea did not arise out of nowhere. This volume, drawing on scholars from three continents, including many native Korean speakers and scholars, provides a wealth of material for understanding the socio-cultural context out of which these popular films arose and in which they are consumed. Yet its greatest contribution may very well be in analysing not just the ‘why’ of Korean cinema, but the "how" - how the Korean film industry remade itself in the early 1990s to become a veritable juggernaut at home and abroad, a major player in global film culture, arguably more important on the world stage today than either the Japanese or Hong Kong cinemas. To this end, the volume provides insightful glimpses into under-appreciated areas within global film studies, such as the significance of film financing and film festivals; the mobilisation of film genre (Horror, comedy, melodrama); and issues of gender and sexuality. Not just a must-read for scholars of Korean film and culture, or Asian cinema, but a major intervention into the study of global media production and consumption.– David Desser, Unit for Cinema Studies, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
A vital addition to the body of work available to those teaching Asian cinema in the west. It is a clearly structured and well written series of approaches to Korean Cinema.– Screening the Past
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