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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kim, Kyung Hyun, 1969-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : hallyu's virtuality
  • Virtual landscapes : Sopyonje, the power of Kangwon province, and the host
  • Viral colony: spring of Korean peninsula and epitaph
  • Virtual dictatorship : the president's barber and the president's last bang
  • Mea culpa : reading the North Korean as an ethnic other
  • Hong Sang-Soo's death, eroticism, and virtual nationalism
  • Virtual trauma : Lee Chang-Dong's oasis and secret sunshine
  • Park Chan-Wook's "unknowable" oldboy
  • The end of history, the beginning of historical films : Korea's new sag?k.

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