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.   

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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 is an associate professor of film and media studies in the department of communication studies at Colorado State University. She is the author of Hollywood Asian: Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-Ethnic Performance and Kim Ki-duk.   DAVID SCOTT DIFFRIENT is the William E. Morgan Endowed Chair of Liberal Arts and associate professor of film and media studies in the department of communication studies at Colorado State University. He is the author of Omnibus Films: Theorizing Transauthorial Cinema.  

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