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Movie Migrations : Transnational Genre Flows and South Korean Cinema /

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 spi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Chung, Hye Seung, 1971- (Autor), Diffrient, David Scott, 1972- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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 detournement 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
  • pt. 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.