Choe Youngmin Choe

Tourist Distractions (eBook, PDF)

Traveling and Feeling in Transnational Hallyu Cinema

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Produktbeschreibung

In Tourist Distractions Youngmin Choe uses hallyu (Korean-wave) cinema as a lens to examine the relationships among tourism and travel, economics, politics, and history in contemporary East Asia. Focusing on films born of transnational collaboration and its networks, Choe shows how the integration of the tourist imaginary into hallyu cinema points to the region's evolving transnational politics and the ways Korea negotiates its colonial and Cold War past with East Asia's neoliberal present. Hallyu cinema's popularity has inspired scores of international tourists to visit hallyu movie sets, filming sites, and theme parks. This tourism helps ease regional political differences; reimagine South Korea's relationships with North Korea, China, and Japan; and blur the lines between history, memory, affect, and consumerism. It also provides distractions from state-sponsored narratives and forges new emotional and economic bonds that foster community and cooperation throughout East Asia. By attending to the tourist imaginary at work in hallyu cinema, Choe helps us to better understand the complexities, anxieties, and tensions of East Asia's new affective economy as well as Korea's shifting culture industry, its relation to its past, and its role in a rapidly changing region.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822374343
• Artikelnr.: 54673977

Autorenporträt

Youngmin Choe

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Distracted Attractions  1
Part I. Intimacy
1. Feeling Together: Pornography and Travel in Kazoku Cinema and Asako in
Ruby Shoes  31
2. Affective Sites: Hur Jin-ho's April Snow and One Fine Spring Day  59
Part II. Amity
3. Provisional Feelings: The Making of Musa  89
4. Affective Palimpsests: Sudden Showers from Hwang Sun-won's "Sonagi" to
Kwak Jae-yong and Andrew Lau's Daisy  112
Part III. Remembrance
5. Postmemory DMZ: Joint Security Area, Yesterday, and 2009 Lost Memories 
143
6. Transient Monuments: Commemmorating and Memorializing in Taegukgi
Korean War Film Tourism  166
Conclusion. K-hallyu: The Commodity Speaks in Kang Chul-woo's Romantic
Island, Bae Yong-joon's A Journey in Search of Korea's Beauty, So Ji-sub's
Road, and Choi Ji-woo's if  197
Notes  205
Bibliography  229
Index  241