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Journal articles on the topic "New korean cinema"
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Yecies, Brian, Ae-Gyung Shim, and Ben Goldsmith. "Digital Intermediary: Korean Transnational Cinema." Media International Australia 141, no. 1 (November 2011): 137–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x1114100116.
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Since censorship was lifted in Korea in 1996, collaboration between Korean and foreign filmmakers has grown in both extent and visibility. Korean films have been shot in Australia, New Zealand and mainland China, while the Korean digital post-production and visual effects firms behind blockbusters infused with local effects have gone on to work with filmmakers from greater China and Hollywood. Korean cinema has become known for its universal storylines, genre experimentation and high production values. The number of exported Korean films has increased, as has the number of Korean actors starring in films made in other countries. Korea has hosted major international industry events. These milestones have facilitated an unprecedented international expansion of the Korean film industry. With the advent of the ‘digital wave’ in Korea – the film industry's transition to digital production practices – this expansion has accelerated. Korean film agencies – the pillars of the national cinema – have played important parts in this internationalisation, particularly in promoting Korean films and filmmakers outside Korea and in facilitating international events in Korea itself. Yet, for the most part, projects involving Korean filmmakers working in partnership with filmmakers from other countries are the products of individuals and businesses working outside official channels. That is, they are often better understood as ‘transnational’ rather than ‘national’ or ‘international’ projects. In this article, we focus on a range of collaborations involving Korean, Australian, New Zealand and Chinese filmmakers and firms. These collaborations highlight some of the forces that have shaped the digital wave in the Korean film industry, and illustrate the increasingly influential role that the digital expertise of Korean filmmakers is playing in film industries, both regionally and around the world.
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Park, Heebon, and Andrew Finch. "Promoting intercultural sensitivity through New Korean Cinema films." East Asian Journal of Popular Culture 2, no. 2 (July 1, 2016): 169–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/eapc.2.2.169_1.
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Teo Kia Choong, Kevin. "Old/New Korea(s): Korean‐ness, Alterity, and Dreams of Re‐Unification in South Korean Cinema." Contemporary Justice Review 8, no. 3 (September 2005): 321–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10282580500133128.
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Ognieva, T. K. "FEATURES OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONTEMPORARY CHINESE, KOREAN AND JAPANESE ART AND CINEMA." UKRAINIAN CULTURAL STUDIES, no. 1 (6) (2020): 69–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/ucs.2020.1(6).15.
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The article analyzes the conditions and factors that influenced the formation of contemporary art and cinema in China, South Korea and Japan. We can determine the peculiarities of the development of Chinese contemporary art, such as the desire of the first artists, after the Cultural Revolution, to reflect its flux and effects as much as possible. Further, artistic tendencies become diverse: the commercial component and a certain element of the state of affairs are viewed in the works of art by Chinese authors, but the desire for self-expression in different ways testify to the progressive phenomena characteristic of art. Modern Korean art proves that the scientific and technological revolution and the dominant avant-garde component of mass culture in general cannot supplant the ultimate traditional artistic creativity. One of the characteristic features of contemporary Korean art is a demonstration of belonging to the culture of the country. First of all, this is the influence of the traditions of Confucianism, Buddhism, along with the painful memories of war and long-term colonization by Japan. One can note the simplicity, orderliness, harmony of colors and shapes as an inalienable feature of Korean contemporary art, but modern tendencies show the striving for the discovery of individuality of the artist, which manifests itself in non-standard artistic forms. Japanese visual art combines the works of autochthonous traditions and European artistic principles. Considerable attention is paid to the issue of the relationship between nature and man, reflected in the work of adherents of the synthesis of Japanese traditions and Western variety of forms. Particular attention is paid to contemporary artists in Japan with the latest technology – video art, 3D painting, interactive installations and installations-hybrids. Chinese cinema with the generation of directors, known as the Fifth Generation, reveals new trends. These artists initially sought to convey events and tragedies during the Cultural Revolution, but over time they turned to other themes and genres. Directors of the "Sixth Generation" paid special attention to social problems, the place of action in their films is unknown China – small settlements or cities. Modern Korean cinema covers two large areas: cinema for women – melodrama, and for men – adventure. Today the adventure genre is oriented mainly to teens, and the melodrama genre has been transformed from the problems of the middle-aged women's interest towards the youth audience, therefore, it is more likely to come closer to the romantic comedy. The tragedy of Korea, which is split up into two parts, worries the movie-makers. In recent years there have been changes in South Korean position in exposing North Korean residents. If the previous decades in South Korean cinema was cultivating the image of the enemy: North Korean could be either a spy or killer, but now the inhabitants of North Korea are perceived and presented in films differently, not embodying exclusively negative features. In Japanese cinema, the emphasis is on the visual array, which allows you to bring forward contemplation and the deep meaning is transmitted by artistic images typical of the oriental art in general. In films, much attention is paid to the smallest details; certain asceticism along with the aesthetization of the frame is a reflection of purely Japanese features – minimalism as the meaning of existence. Familiarity with the peculiarities of the development of contemporary art and cinema in China, Korea and Japan is a necessary component for further dialogue between the cultures of East and West in terms of balanced interaction and artistic transformations of the modern world.
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Lee, Nikki Ji Yeon. "New Korean Cinema, and: South Korean Golden Age Melodrama: Gender, Genre, and National Cinema (review)." Journal of Korean Studies 11, no. 1 (2006): 191–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jks.2006.0000.
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CHUNGSTEVEN and Moon-Im Baek. "Guest Editors' Introduction: New Cartographies and Archaeologies of Korean Cinema." Review of Korean Studies 18, no. 1 (June 2015): 7–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.25024/review.2015.18.1.001.
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Klein, Christina. "The AFKN nexus: US military broadcasting and New Korean Cinema." Transnational Cinemas 3, no. 1 (May 22, 2012): 19–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/trac.3.1.19_1.
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HyoIn Yi. "Coevolution of Conventions and Korean New Wave: Korean Cinema in the 1970s and 80s." Korea Journal 59, no. 4 (December 2019): 78–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.25024/kj.2019.59.4.78.
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Chung, Hye Seung. "Multiculturalism as “New Enlightenment”: The Myth of Hypergamy and Social Integration in Punch." Journal of Korean Studies 23, no. 1 (March 1, 2018): 135–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/21581665-4339089.
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Abstract This article examines the commercially successful multicultural film Punch (Wan-dŭk i, Yi Han, 2011) as an example of new “enlightenment” (kaemong) cinema, one that—like its precedents in the South Korean Golden Age cinema of the 1950s and 1960s—supports the official government policy. While classic enlightenment films made during the Cold War era endorsed state-sanctioned narratives of anticommunism, modernization, and development, Punch toes the line of the South Korean government’s millennial project of multiculturalism (tamunhwa). Despite its intent to create a hopeful, affirmative message of tolerance and inclusion, Punch ironically silences the dissenting voice of a migrant bride character (played by Jasmine Lee, a Philippine-born TV personality-turned-representative in the National Assembly) who remains marginalized and peripheral in the masculine narrative wherein male bonding and mentoring reign supreme.
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Juknevičiūtė, Laima. "The soft power implications of the new South Korean cinema: Approaching audiences in East Asia and Lithuania." Acta Orientalia Vilnensia 12, no. 1 (January 1, 2011): 121–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/aov.2011.0.1100.
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Vytautas Magnus UniversitySouth Korea’s experience wielding soft power is usually associated with the Korean Wave, which swept the Asian region off its feet predominantly during the first decade of this century. In this article I will however argue that the phenomenon of the Korean Wave has never been intended as a calculated attempt on the part of the South Korean government to enhance the overall South Korean image worldwide and thus increase South Korean international might and prestige. To prove the validity of this hypothesis, I will provide a concise historical overview of the inception, development and spread of South Korean popular culture, while at the same time tracing its underlying soft power implications. I will likewise attempt to discuss the popular reception of the Korean Wave in three East Asian countries, i.e. Mainland China, Taiwan and Japan, and one European country, i.e. Lithuania. The scope of the endeavour has been largely restricted to the cinematic aspect of the Korean Wave, for I consider the creation of motion pictures and drama serials to be by far the most precious, influential and revealing form of art.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "New korean cinema"
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Shin, Jeeyoung. "Negotiating local, regional, and global nationalism, hybridity, and transnationalism in New Korean Cinema /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3344598.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Communication and Culture, 2008.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Oct. 6, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-02, Section: A, page: 0401. Adviser: Barbara Klinger.
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Brown, James, and katsuben@internode on net. "South Korean Film Since 1986: The Domestic and Regional Formulation of East Asias Most Recent Commercial Entertainment Cinema." Flinders University. School of Humanities (Screen Studies), 2006. http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au./local/adt/public/adt-SFU20071122.143238.
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This thesis investigates the historically composed political and economic contexts that contributed to the late 1990s commercial renaissance of Korean national cinema and that have sustained the popularity of Korean films among local and regional audiences ever since. Unlike existing approaches to the topic, which emphasise the textual characteristics of national film production, this thesis considers relations between film production, distribution, exhibition, and ancillary markets, as well as Korean cinemas engagement with international cinemas such as Hollywood, Hong Kong, China and Japan. I argue that following the relaxation of restrictive film policy towards the importation and distribution of foreign films between 1986 and 1988, the subsequent failure of the domestic film industry to compete against international competition precipitated a remarkable shift in consensus regarding the industrys structure and functions. Due to the loss of distribution rights to foreign films and the rapid decline in ticket sales for Korean films, the continued economic viability of local film companies was under enormous threat by the early 1990s. The government reacted by permitting conglomerates to seize control of the industry and pursue vertical and horizontal integration. During the rest of the decade, Korean cinema was transformed from an art cinema to a commercial entertainment cinema. The 1997/98 economic crisis led to the exit of conglomerate finance, but streamlined film companies were able to withstand the monetary meltdown, continue the domestic revitalisation, and, since the late 1990s, build media empires based on the expansion of Korean cinema throughout the Asian region.
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Hwang, Yun Mi. "South Korean historical drama : gender, nation and the heritage industry." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/1924.
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From the dynamic landscape of contemporary South Korean cinema, one trend that stands out is the palpable revival of the historical drama (known as the ‘sageuk’ in Korean). Since the early 2000s, expensive, visually striking, and successful costumed pieces have been showcased to the audience. Now rivalling the other mainstream genres such as gangster action, romantic comedy, and the Korean blockbuster, the sageuk has made an indelible impact on the national film industry. Even so, the cycle has yet to receive much critical attention. This thesis addresses the gap, driven by the question, what is the impetus behind the surge of the ‘historical’ witnessed in recent sageuk films? For this, I first take a diachronic view of the historical context of the genre, which later serves as the reference point for the genre memory. Adopting a synchronic approach, I then examine the industrial, political, and social contexts in Korea at the turn of the new century that facilitated the history boom. While national memory and transnational politics fuelled Koreans’ interest in their past, the popular media – cinema, television, publishing industry, and performance theatre – all capitalised on this drive. The government also took part by supporting the ‘culture content industry’ as a way to fashion an attractive national image and accelerate the cultural export system. Collectively, these efforts translated to the emergence of history as a commodity, carving a unique space for historical narratives in the national heritage industry. As such, different agents – the consumers, the industry, and the state – had their stakes in the national mobilisation of history and memory with competing ideological and commercial interests. Ultimately, the sageuk is the primary site in which these diverging aspirations and desires are played out. In chapters that follow, I engage with four main sub-types of the recent historical drama, offering textual and contextual readings. The main discussion includes the ‘fusion’ sageuk (Untold Scandal), the biopic (King and the Clown and Portrait of a Beauty), the heritage horror (Blood Rain and Shadows in the Palace), and the colonial period drama (Rikidozan, Blue Swallow and Modern Boy). While analysing the generic tropes and narrative themes of each film, I also pay attention to contemporary discourses of gender, and the cultural treatment of masculinity and femininity within the period setting. Such investigation, in turn, locates the place of the historical genre in New Korean Cinema, and thus, offers a much-needed intervention into one of the neglected topics in the study of cinematic trends in South Korea.
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Turner, James Lloyd. "Monstrous Dialogues: THE HOST and South Korean Inverted Exile." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4244.
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Bong Joon-ho‟s monster movie blockbuster, The Host (Gweomul, 2006), is the most commercially successful film in South Korean cinema history. The film‟s popularity and significance derive from its unearthing of the ambivalence concerning South Korea‟s rapid transformation from a rural dictatorship to an urban democracy with one of the strongest economies on the planet. This ambivalence is buried beneath a veneer of "progress" blanketing contemporary South Korea and constitutes a condition I call inverted exile. The Host explicitly engages life in inverted exile through my notion of aesthetic dialogue. Aesthetic dialogue, takes influence from the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and allows for proliferation of meaning beyond authorial intent by focusing on The Host‟s context. My approach focuses on genre, narrative, and style to flesh out the political, historical, and social ambivalences behind any given moment of The Host to put them in dialogue with one another. The project progresses through sites of cultural dialogue central to the film and/or life in inverted exile: the monster, the city, the home. I approach each site through the genres associated with them and gender roles each of them assume in inverted exile. South Korea‟s transformation and its relationship with the United States are causes of anxiety (e.g. loss of traditional values, overwhelming Western influence) and desire (political freedom, economic opportunity). Ultimately, I argue, The Host suggests that South Korea and its citizens need to embrace the ambivalences of inverted exile and actively shape an identity that takes an active and critical attitude towards Western influence. Such an attitude can better preserve the desirable aspects of traditional culture (e.g. traditional food, familial unity) and alleviate the anxieties caused by Western influence (e.g. rampant consumerism, unjust class divisions). The Host‟s dialogic form is integral to its shaping of Korean identity as it takes from multiple cultural sources (i.e. Hollywood and Korean history) without challenging their polarization.
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Hong, Sora. "La génération des centres culturels (Munhwawon sedae) et la nouvelle vague du cinéma sud-coréen des années 1980-1990." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019EHES0051.
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Depuis les années 1980, la Corée du Sud a observé un processus de légitimation culturelle du cinéma. En prenant appui sur ce phénomène, cette thèse attire l’attention sur le rôle des cinéphiles regroupés sous l’expression, « Munhwawon sedae » : la génération des centres culturels. Dans cette thèse, nous la définissons comme un réseau social de cinéphiles sud-coréens qui émerge à partir de la fréquentation des centres culturels européens à Séoul sur une période qui s’étend entre 1977 et 1984. Notre analyse de ce réseau s’appuie sur une méthode prosopographique permettant d’apprécier les rapports entre individus et institutions, et en particulier la trajectoire et les différents discours portant sur le 7e art de la Munhwawon sedae. Cette trajectoire est nourrie par un type intellectuel de cinéphilie en provenance de l’Europe, notamment de la France et de l’Allemagne, mais aussi plus localement, par les théories portées par le mouvement culturel pour le « minjung » (peuple). Les discours produits sur ce nouveau cinéma sud-coréen se situent donc, à la frontière entre l’art et la politique, celle-ci étant pensée comme un contrepoids à un système politique jugé corrompu. Cependant, avec l’effervescence du mouvement pour la démocratisation du pays, la résistance contre le régime autoritaire prend alors plus d’importance que le 7e art en tant que tel. Il faut attendre l’apaisement du mouvement social dû à certains processus de démocratisation politique pour qu’un équilibre se dessine entre l’ambition esthétique et l’ambition politique de la Munhwawon sedae. Son engagement pour l’évolution du cinéma sud-coréen constitue une réelle initiative dans le champ cinématographique du pays. Dès lors, les « membres » de la Munhwawon sedae qui, autrefois n’avaient été que simples spectateurs, diffusent leur cinéphilie en tant que réalisateurs, producteurs, critiques et professeurs de cinéma. Dans l’ensemble, notre thèse s’attache à montrer comment, au milieu des années 1990, la Munhwawon sedae a marqué la fin de « l’âge sombre » du cinéma sud-coréen. En se positionnant de cette manière, au cœur d’une nouvelle vague artistique et politique, elle a contribué à établir une nouvelle élite culturelle sud-coréenne. La Munhwawon sedae était donc à la fois la première bénéficiaire des changements de contexte social autour du cinéma en Corée du Sud et la facilitatrice de la légitimation culturelle du cinéma sud-coréen<br>A process of cultural legitimation of the cinema has occurred in South Korea since the 1980s. This thesis focuses on the role that cinephiles grouped under the expression of the Munhwawon sedae, the generation of cultural centers, have played in this process. Accordingly, I analyze this notion, understood as a social network of South Korean cinephiles who emerged as a result of frequenting European countries’ cultural centers in Seoul between 1977 and 1984. The analysis is based on a prosopographic method to understand the relationships between individuals and institutions, particularly the trajectory and various discourses on the Seventh Art of the Munhwawon sedae. As I demonstrate, this trajectory is nourished not only by an intellectual type of European cinephilia but also, more locally, by theories of cultural movement for the minjung (people). The discourses produced on the “South Korean new cinema” therefore exist on the border between art and politics. The latter side was seen as a counterweight to an absurd political system. Thus, I strive to show how the political objective has progressively taken precedence over the artistic objective with the effervescence of the movement for the democratization of the country: the resistance against the presumed incoherence of society then becomes more important than the pursuit of the Seventh Art. Until the end of the political democratization process of the country, a balance is drawn between the aesthetic and political ambition of the Munhwawon sedae. The engagement of these cinephiles within the evolution of the South Korean cinema constitutes a new initiative in the field. Now, the “members” of the Munhwawon sedae, who once were movie fans frequenting European countries’ cultural centers, have spread their cinephilia as directors, producers, critics, and film educators. Overall, this thesis focuses on how, in the mid-1990s, the Munhwawon sedae announced an end to the dark age of South Korean cinema. By positioning itself in this way, literally at the heart of this artistic and political new wave, the Munhwawon sedae formed as the new cultural elite of South Korean society
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Cho, Kyoung-Hee. "Le « Cinéma ouvert » de Jang Sun-Woo." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCA063.
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Notre travail se consacre à l’étude exhaustive de l’œuvre cinématographique et théorique du cinéaste coréen contemporain Jang Sun-woo. Celui-ci fut d’abord un critique et un théoricien du cinéma, son concept de « Cinéma ouvert » (1982) vise à introduire et à penser un « nouveau cinéma ». Jang Sun-woo souligne le besoin d’une critique, d’une invention formelle et aussi d’une théorie pour le cinéma coréen saisie dans la logique de son Histoire. En particulier, le cinéaste coréen s’y positionne pour réaliser un cinéma en vue de l’harmonie entre l’individu et la communauté.Le « Cinéma ouvert » est un concept qui fusionne le cinéma et le théâtre. Il est influencé, d’une part par le Madanggeuk, le théâtre moderne coréen composé de plusieurs unités plus ou moins indépendantes de la narration, et d’autre part, par la théorie du montage d’Eisenstein travaillant sur la dialectique entre la continuité et la discontinuité. Pour Jang Sun-woo, l’œuvre reste ouverte, c’est-à-dire non close sur elle-même, au sens où elle ne s’achève qu’au moment de la réception par le spectateur. Les films intègrent explicitement l’expérience du spectateur, proposent le dialogue avec celui-ci et créent des initiatives en matière d’interpellation. Pour ce faire, ils emploient la répétition, la métamorphose, l’analogie, l’allégorie, l’abstraction et certaines formes d’hybridation. Notre monographie observe l’évolution de l’œuvre de Jang Sun-woo dans son ensemble (critiques, films, publications), en approfondissant les questions essentielles et spécifiques que celle-ci soulève : comment les notions de Minjung (peuple), de masse, de spectateur évoluent-elles ? L’esthétique de l’ouverture peut-elle permettre d’émanciper le spectateur et à quel type de changement aspire-t-elle ? Enfin, quel rituel Jang Sun-woo organise-t-il en vue de réaliser l’Utopie ?<br>This thesis devotes itself to the analysis of the film and the theoretical work of Korean contemporary director Jang Sun-woo. He was initially a critic and a film theorist, his concept of "Open Cinema" (1982) aims to introduce about "the new cinema" which accentuates the need of the critics, the formal invention and also a theory for the Korean cinema with the consideration about its historical context. In particular, Jang Sun-woo insists on making a movie with the harmony between the individual and the community.The "Open Cinema" is a concept that combines the aesthetic of the film and the theater. Firstly, it is influenced by the Madanggeuk, the modern Korean theater is composed with several acts more or less independent of the narrative. Secondly, it is inspired by Eisenstein’s theory of editing which is based on the dialectic form between the continuity and the discontinuity. For Jang Sun-woo, the film remains open in a sense that it finds its conclusion in the interpretation of the audience. In his idea, the film incorporates the experience of the audience and creates his interpellation. To realize that, Jang Sun-woo proposes several rhetorics of image like repetition, metamorphosis, analogy, allegory, abstraction, and certain forms of hybridization.Our monograph observes the evolution of Jang Sun-woo’s whole work (critics, films, publications) which raises the essential and specific questions: how the concepts of the Minjung (people), the mass and the audience were developed? Can the aesthetics of openness allow the audience to be emancipated and what kind of change it implies? Finally, what sort of ceremonial Jang Sun-woo organizes for performing Utopia?
Books on the topic "New korean cinema"
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Korean cinema: The new Hong Kong : a guidebook for the latest Korean New Wave. Victoria, B.C: Trafford, 2002.
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Chi-Yun, Shin, and Stringer Julian 1966-, eds. New Korean cinema. New York: New York University Press, 2005.
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Chi-Yun, Shin, and Stringer Julian 1966-, eds. New Korean cinema. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005.
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Paquet, Darcy. New Korean Cinema: Breaking the Waves. Columbia University Press, 2010.
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Jin, Dal Yong. Cultural Globalization in Korean Cinema. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039973.003.0004.
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This chapter examines the swift change experienced by the Korean film industry in conjunction with the Korean Wave. It investigates the primary causes of the roller coaster-like shifts within Korean cinema, including government cultural policies due to the significant role of the government in the midst of neoliberal globalization. It then maps out the nature of cultural hybridity in domestic films by comparing hybridized films between the Hallyu 1.0 era and the Hallyu 2.0 era. By textually analyzing film genres and themes of 240 films produced domestically between 1989 and 2012, the chapter explores not only the ways in which Korean cinema develops hybridity in domestic films, but also whether hybridity has generated new possible cultures that are free from Western influence. This eventually leads us to determine the major characteristics of hybrid Korean cinema in the Hallyu 2.0 era and its future direction in the global film market.
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Bettinson, Gary, and Daniel Martin. Introduction. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474424592.003.0001.
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This introduction to Hong Kong Horror Cinema introduces Hong Kong horror from a variety of perspectives, charting the history and development of the genre and citing key films and filmmakers; it puts Hong Kong horror in the context of East Asian horror more broadly, discussing some of the cultural specificities of Hong Kong horror that differentiate it from the popular and historical horror cycles from Japan, South Korea, Thailand and China; it provides a brief overview of horror studies within the field of academic theory, and suggests ways in which Hong Kong horror films can contribute new perspectives to these well-rehearsed arguments. A brief survey of literature covers the major related works from the fields of Hong Kong cinema and horror film history, and in doing so, makes a case for the importance, timeliness and originality of this anthology. The introduction also includes a chapter-by-chapter breakdown of Hong Kong Horror Cinema, explaining the division of chapters into sections and drawing pertinent connections between the varied studies that follow.
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Parreñas Shimizu, Celine. The Proximity of Other Skins. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190865856.001.0001.
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Transnational films representing intimacy and inequality disrupt and disgust Western spectators. When wounded bodies within poverty entangle with healthy wealthy bodies in sex, romance and care, fear and hatred combine with desire and fetishism. Works from the Philippines, South Korea, and independents from the United States and France may not be made for the West and may not make use of Hollywood traditions. Rather, they demand recognition for the knowledge they produce beyond our existing frames. They challenge us to go beyond passive consumption, or introspection of ourselves as spectators, for they represent new ways of world-making we cannot unsee, unhear, or unfeel. The spectator is redirected to go beyond the rapture of consuming the other to the rupture that arises from witnessing pain and suffering. Self-displacement is what proximity to intimate inequality in cinema ultimately compels and demands so as to establish an ethical way of relating to others. In undoing the spectator, the voice of the transnational filmmaker emerges. Not only do we need to listen to filmmakers from outside Hollywood who unflinchingly engage the inexpressibility of difference, we need to make room for critics and theorists who prioritize the subjectivities of others. When the demographics of filmmakers and film scholars are not as diverse as its spectators, films narrow our worldviews. To recognize our culpability in the denigration of others unleashes the power of cinema. The unbearability of stories we don’t want to watch and don’t want to feel must be borne.
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Choi, Jinhee, ed. Reorienting Ozu. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190254971.001.0001.
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Reorienting Ozu: A Master and His Influence offers new perspectives on Ozu Yasujiro and his influence on global art cinema directors. Ozu has been admired both by film scholars and filmmakers around the globe, having been at the center of significant scholarly debates, and being considered by many as a precursor of an aesthetic legacy and sensibility explored in the global art scene. By situating Ozu within the proper historical and discursive contexts, and thereby breaking with essentialist, traditionalist, and formalist readings of him, this volume helps to initiate a new theorizing and historical understanding of Ozu as a director who had to negotiate with production and socio-historical circumstances of Japan. Further explored in the volume is his relationship with his successors, who are inspired by and pay homage to Ozu, including Hou Hsiao-hsien, Suo Masayuki, Iguchi Nami, Claire Denis, Wim Wenders, Kore-eda Hirokazu, Jim Jarmusch, Aki Kaurismäki, and Abbas Kiarostami.
Book chapters on the topic "New korean cinema"
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"II. New Korean Cinema Auteurs." In The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema, 131–230. Duke University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780822385585-004.
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"Select Filmography of Major Directors of the New Korean Cinema." In The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema, 313–19. Duke University Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822385585-016.
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"Select Filmography of Major Directors of the New Korean Cinema." In The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema, 313–20. Duke University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780822385585-007.
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"SELECT FILMOGRAPHY OF MAJOR DIRECTORS OF THE NEW KOREAN CINEMA." In The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema, 313–20. Duke University Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv11cw5t0.18.
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"The Manchurian Action Film: A New Anticolonial Imaginary in the Cold War Context." In Parameters of Disavowal: Colonial Representation in South Korean Cinema, 52–75. University of California Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/luminos.51.d.
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"The New Korean Cinema Looks Back To Kwangju: The Old Garden And May 18." In Korea Yearbook (2008), 171–98. BRILL, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004169791.i-276.60.
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Ma, Ran. "A Landscape Over There." In Independent Filmmaking across Borders in Contemporary Asia. Nieuwe Prinsengracht 89 1018 VR Amsterdam Nederland: Amsterdam University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462986640_ch02.
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This chapter examines three border-crossing films by the Korean-Chinese (chaoxianzu) filmmaker Zhang Lu, namely Desert Dreams (2008), Dooman River (2010), and Scenery (2013). Using the conceptual framework of translocality, this study first explores how Zhang, as a translocal auteur, leveraged his multi-layered identities to engage the global film festival network. Not only does Zhang reinvent the border as a new scale to scrutinize the translocal movement of deterritorialized subjects and diasporic peoples, he also sheds light on the significance of place in identity formation and further examines the power geometry of globalization. As such, Zhang’s translocal filmmaking both intersects and challenges us to rethink Chinese independent filmmaking and Korean diasporic cinema.
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Barker, Thomas. "Audiences without Cinemas." In Indonesian Cinema after the New Order, 138–64. Hong Kong University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5790/hongkong/9789888528073.003.0006.
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Indonesia remains underserviced by cinemas with a comparatively low cinema to population ratio. For much of the late New Order and after reformasi, exhibition remained dominated by the 21 Group, a crony company with film import monopoly rights. Recently, new investment has flowed into exhibition from the Blitzmegaplex company which is revealed to be well connected to New Order military figures. More recently new players have entered the industry including South Korea’s CGV who bought Blitz, the domestic conglomerate Lippo, and Raam Punjabi’s Platinum Cineplex chain, introducing both competition and global capital into the sector.
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Turnock, Bryan. "Asian Horror." In Studying Horror Cinema, 119–38. Liverpool University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781911325895.003.0007.
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This chapter details how the mid-1990s saw a substantial increase in the number of horror films being produced in Asian countries, and in particular Japan and Korea. At the same time, globalisation and the introduction of worldwide distribution channels meant that such films became much more accessible to western audiences, with the surprise success of Hideo Nakata's Ringu (1998) bringing Japanese horror into the mainstream of western cinema. Often used to describe genre films from across Asia, so-called 'J-Horror' is now a recognised sub-genre in the west, with a number of scholarly books dedicated to its analysis. Although many of the more recent films feature modern trappings and a preoccupation with technology, they draw heavily from Japan's long tradition of folklore and ghost stories, while stylistically referencing the aesthetics of traditional Japanese theatre. The chapter considers Masaki Kobayashi's Kaidan (Kwaidan, 1964). It traces the evolution of Japan's unique national film industry and examines how cultural differences can affect genre production and consumption.
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Beng Huat, Chua. "Pop Culture as Soft Power." In Structure, Audience and Soft Power in East Asian Pop Culture. Hong Kong University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.5790/hongkong/9789888139033.003.0008.
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Pop culture has emerged has a vehicle of soft power and an arena for competition in cultural diplomacy between China, Japan and Korea. As a middle-power, Korea is the most self-conscious about turning the popularity of its pop culture into an instrument to influence its consumers in Japan and, especially China. Japan’s ability to exercise cultural influence is limited by the potential push-back from memories its colonization of Korea and war time atrocities in China. With a nascent media industry, China is currently at a disadvantage because it is a net importer of pop culture; however, its massive consumption power has begun to force foreign producers to seek co-production opportunities with Chinese companies in order to avoid being kept out by import restrictions imposed by the Chinese government. Co-production gives the Chinese counterparts the right to control the content of the programs, than an ideological advantage. In view of the soft power competition, the idea of pan-East Asian cinema seems to be a project deferred rather than one that is imminent.