Virtual Hallyu : Korean Cinema of the Global Era /

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In the late 1990s, South Korean film and other cultural products, broadly known as hallyu (Korean wave), gained unprecedented international popularity. Korean films earned an all-time high of $60.3 million in Japan in 2005, and they outperformed their Hollywood competitors at Korean box offices. In...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kim, Kyung Hyun, 1969-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Populärkultur, Sydkorea, 2000-t.
Filmindustrin, Sydkorea.
Film > Sydkorea > 2000-talet.
Culture populaire > Coree > 21e siecle.
Industries culturelles > Coree > 21e siecle.
Industrie du cinema > Coree > 21e siecle.
Cinema > Coree > 21e siecle.
Pop-Kultur.
Film.
Film
Popular culture.
Motion pictures.
Cultural industries.
Culture populaire > Coree > Histoire > 21e siecle.
Industries culturelles > Coree > Histoire > 21e siecle.
Cinema > Coree > Histoire > 21e siecle.
Popular culture > Korea > History > 21st century.
Cultural industries > Korea > History > 21st century.
Motion pictures > Korea > History > 21st century.
Korea.
Korea
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:In the late 1990s, South Korean film and other cultural products, broadly known as hallyu (Korean wave), gained unprecedented international popularity. Korean films earned an all-time high of $60.3 million in Japan in 2005, and they outperformed their Hollywood competitors at Korean box offices. In Virtual Hallyu, Kyung Hyun Kim reflects on the precariousness of Korean cinema's success over the past decade. Arguing that state film policies and socioeconomic factors cannot fully explain cinema's true potentiality, Kim draws on Deleuze's concept of the virtual--according to which past and present and truth and falsehood coexist--to analyze the temporal anxieties and cinematic ironies embedded in screen figures such as a made-in-the-USA aquatic monster (The Host), a postmodern Chosun-era wizard (Jeon Woo-chi), a schizo man-child (Oasis), a weepy North Korean terrorist (Typhoon), a salary man turned vengeful fighting machine (Oldboy), and a sick nationalist (the repatriated colonial-era film Spring of Korean Peninsula). Kim maintains that the full significance of hallyu can only be understood by exposing the implicit and explicit ideologies of protonationalism and capitalism that, along with Korea's ambiguous post-democratization and neoliberalism, are etched against the celluloid surfaces. -- Book Description.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (276 pages): illustrations ;
ISBN:9780822394600

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