Hye Seung Chung, David Scott Diffrient

Movie Migrations

Transnational Genre Flows and South Korean Cinema

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Produktbeschreibung

This timely new study reveals that, though South Korean popular culture might be enjoying new prominence on the global stage, the nation’s film industry has long been a hub for creative appropriations across national borders. Movie Migrations explores how Korean filmmakers have put a unique spin on familiar genres, while influencing world cinema from Hollywood to Bollywood.   

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 506g
• ISBN-13: 9780813569970
• ISBN-10: 0813569974
• Artikelnr.: 41755030

Autorenporträt

Hye Seung Chung and David Scott Diffrient

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: South Korean Cinema’s Transnational Trajectories
 
Part I   From Classical Hollywood to the Korean Golden Age: Cinephilia,
Modernization, and Postcolonial Genre Flows
 
1   Toward a Strategic Korean Cinephilia: A Transnational Détournement of
Hollywood Melodrama
2   The Mamas and the Papas: Cross-Cultural Remakes, Literary Adaptations,
and Cinematic “Parent” Texts
3   The Nervous Laughter of Vanishing Fathers: Modernization Comedies of
the 1960s
4   Once upon a Time in Manchuria: Classic and Contemporary Korean Westerns
 
Part II   From Cinematic Seoul to Global Hollywood: Cosmopolitanism,
Empire, and Transnational Genre Flows
 
5   Reinventing the Historical Drama, De-Westernizing a French Classic:
Genre, Gender, and the Transnational Imaginary in Untold Scandal
6   From Gojira to Goemul: “Host” Cities and “Post” Histories in East Asian
Monster Movies
7   Extraordinarily Rendered: Oldboy, Transmedia Adaptation, and the US War
on Terror
8   A Thirst for Diversity: Trends in Korean “Multicultural Films,” from
Bandhobi to Where is Ronny?
 
Conclusion: Into “Spreadable” Spaces: Netflix, YouTube, and the Question of
Cultural Translatability
Notes
Index