Korean Cinema in Global Contexts: Post-Colonial Phantom, Blockbuster and Trans-Cinema

By Soyoung Kim

Book Overview

Offering the most comprehensive analysis of Korean cinema from its early history to the present, and including the films of Park Chan-wook, Bong Joon-ho and Kim Ki-young, Korean Cinema in Global Contexts: Postcolonial Phantom, Blockbuster and Trans-Cinema situates itself in the local, Inter-Asian, and transnational contexts by mobilizing the critical frameworks of feminism, postcolonial critique and comparative film studies. It is attentive to an enmeshment of the cinematic, aesthetics, politics and cultural history.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 104118185X
• ISBN13: 9781041181859
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 212 Pages