Korean horror cinema /
The first detailed English-language book on Korean horror introduces the cultural specificity of the genre to an international audience, from the iconic monsters of gothic horror, to the avenging killers of Oldboy and Death Bell. Beginning in the 1960s, it traces a path through the history of Korean...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
©2013.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / Julian Stringer
- Introduction / Alison Peirse and Daniel Martin
- Part I. Classic Korean horror : Family, death and the wonhon in four films of the 1960s / Hyangjin Lee
- Creepy liver-eating fox ladies: The thousand year old fox and Korea's gumiho / Alison Peirse and James Byrne
- War horror and anti-Communism: from Piago to Rainy days / Mark Morris
- Mother's grudge and Woman's wail: the monster-mother and Korean horror film / Eunha Oh
- Part II. Contemporary 'domestic' horror : Heritage of horrors: reclaiming the female ghost in Shadows in the palace / Yun Mi Hwang
- Acacia and adoption anxiety in Korean horror cinema / Hye Seung Chung
- Apartment horror: Sorum and Possessed / Nikki J.Y. Lee
- The face(s) of Korean horror film: toward a cinematic physiognomy of affective extremes / David Scott Diffrient
- Death bell and high-school horror / Chi-Yun Shin
- Part III. Contemporary 'international' horror : Between the local and global : 'Asian horror' in Ahn Byung-ki's Phone and Bunshinsaba / Daniel Martin
- Diary of a lost girl: Victoriana, intertextuality and A tale of two sisters / Robert L. Cagle
- From A tale of two sisters to The uninvited: a tale of two texts / Leung Wing-Fai
- Oldboy goes to Bollywood: Zinda and the transnational appropriation of South Korean 'extreme' cinema / Iain Robert Smith
- Park Chan-wook's Thirst: body, guilt and exsanguination / Kyu Hyun Kim
- Glossary.