Transnational Korean Cinema: Cultural Politics, Film Genres, and Digital Technologies

✍ Scribed by Dal Yong Jin

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 205
• Edition: Illustrated
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In Transnational Korean Cinema author Dal Yong Jin explores the interactions of local and global politics, economics, and culture to contextualize the development of Korean cinema and its current place in an era of neoliberal globalization and convergent digital technologies.

The book emphasizes the economic and industrial aspects of the story, looking at questions on the interaction of politics and economics, including censorship and public funding, and provides a better view of the big picture by laying bare the relationship between film industries, the global market, and government. Jin also sheds light on the operations and globalization strategies of Korean film industries alongside changing cultural policies in tandem with Hollywood’s continuing influences in order to comprehend the power relations within cultural politics, nationally and globally. This is the first book to offer a full overview of the nascent development of Korean cinema.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1. The Emergence of Contemporary Korean Cinema
Chapter 2. State Film Policy and the Politicization of Censorship
Chapter 3. Screen Quotas in the Era of the U.S.-Korea FTA
Chapter 4. Conglomeration, Screen Oligopoly, and Cultural Diversity
Chapter 5. Public Film Funding and Transnational Production
Chapter 6. Coproduction and Transnationalization of Korean Cinema
Chapter 7. Transnationalization of Film Genres
Chapter 8. Transmedia Storytelling of Webtoons in Films in the Digital Era
Notes
References
Index
About the Author