β Scribed by Sangjoon Lee (ed.)
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Contents
Introduction: Rediscovering Korean Cinema
1. A Brief History of Korean Cinema
2. Sweet Dream (1936) and the Transformation of Cinema in Colonial Korea
3. Spring in the Korean Peninsula (1941): Transcolonial Mise en Abyme
4. A Hometown in the Heart (1949): A Meditation on Freedom and Class
5. Piagol (1955): Realism and Melodrama in the Anti-communist Film
6. Madame Freedom (1956): Spectatorship and the Modern Woman
7. Flower in Hell (1958): Stylization, Landscape, and the Presence of War
8. The Housemaid (1960): Possessed by the Dispossessed
9. Aimless Bullet (1961): Postwar Dystopia, Canonicity, and Cinema Realism
10. Mist (1967): βArt Cinemaβ under Dictatorship
11. The Road to Sampo (1975): South Korean Mobile Vulgus and Cinematic Affectivity on the Road
12. The March of Fools (1975): The Resistant Spirit and Its Limits
13. Declaration of Idiot (1983):Cinema of Censorship and an Accidental Masterpiece
14. Chilsu and Mansu (1988): The Voice of the People
15. The Night Before the Strike (1990): The Legendary Minjung Realist Film
16. My Love, My Bride (1990): A Comedy of Remarriage?
17. The Murmuring Trilogy (1995β99): Documentary Film as Testimony
18. A Petal (1996): Korean Historiography and the Fetishization of the Past
19. The Power of Kangwon Province (1998): The Sound of Minimalism
20. Die Bad (2000): Independent Filmmaking by a Cinema Kid
21. Chβunhyang, Chihwaseon, and Hanji: Im Kwon-taekβs Use of Nativist Korean Culture as Allegories of Cinema
22. My Sassy Girl (2001): The Taming of the YΕpki
23. Take Care of My Cat (2001): The Architectonics of Female Subjectivity in Post-crisis South Korea
24. Oldboy (2003): Splendor and Truth in the Perversity
25. Repatriation (2003): A Very Personal Division
26. A Tale of Two Sisters (2003): Sadness and Suffering in South Korean Horror
27. 3-Iron(2004): A Cinema of Paradoxes
28. The Host (2006): Life in Excess
29. Family Ties (2006): Of Journeys and Homes
30. Secret Sunshine (2007): The Canon, the Criterion Collection, and the Question of Cinematic Religion
31. The Journals of Musan (2010): North Korean Migrantsβ Masculinity in South Korea
32. Stateless Things (2011): Queer Cinema and the Critique of the Heteronormative Nation-State
33. Snowpiercer (2013): The Post-historical Catastrophe of a Biopolitical Ecosystem
34. Ode to My Father (2014): Korean War through Cinema
35. Train to Busan (2016): Glocalization, Korean Zombies, and a Man-Made Neoliberal Disaster
Chronology of Korean Cinema
Filmography
Contributors
Index
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