Rediscovering Korean Cinema

Introduction: Rediscovering Korean Cinema Sangjoon Lee = 1 1 A Brief History of Korean Cinema Cho Junhyoung = 34 2 Sweet Dream (1936) and the Transformation of Cinema in Colonial Korea Brian Yecies = 64 3 Spring in the Korean Peninsula (1941): Transcolonial Mise en Abyme Nayoung Aimee Kwon = 80 4 A Hometown in the Heart (1949): A Meditation on Freedom and Class Juhn Ahn = 95 5 Piagol (1955): Realism and Melodrama in the Anti-communist Film Travis Workman = 105 6 Madame Freedom (1956): Spectatorship and the Modern Woman Christina Klein = 118 7 Flower in Hell (1958): Stylization, Landscape, and the Presence of War Steven Chung = 132 8 The Housemaid (i960): Possessed by the Dispossessed Chris Berry = 147 9 Aimless Bullet (1961): Postwar Dystopia, Canonicity, and Cinema Realism Kelly Y. Jeong = 160 10 Mist (1967): "Art Cinema" under Dictatorship Chung-kang Kim = 173 11 The Road to Sampo (1975): South Korean Mobile Vulgus and Cinematic Affectivity on the Road Hyun Seon Park = 187 12 The March of Fools (1975): The Resistant Spirit and Its Limits Han Sang Kim = 201 13 Declaration of Idiot (1983): Cinema of Censorship and an Accidental Masterpiece Hyangjin Lee = 215 14 Chilsu and Mansu (1988): The Voice of the People Darcy Paquet = 233 15 The Night Before the Strike (1990): The Legendary Minjung Realist Film Nam Lee = 246 16 My Love, My Bride (1990): A Comedy of Remarriage? Jinhee Choi = 260 17 The Murmuring Trilogy (1995-99): Documentary Film as Testimony Hye Jean Chung = 274 18 A Petal (1996): Korean Historiography and the Fetishization of the Past Steve Choe = 289 19 The Power of Kangwon Province (1998): The Sound of Minimalism Julian Stringer = 302 20 Die Bad (2000): Independent Filmmaking by a Cinema Kid Nikki J. Y. Lee = 315 21 Ch'unhyang, Chihwaseon, and Hanji: Im Kwon-taek's Use of Nativist Korean Culture as Allegories of Cinema David E. James = 330 22 My Sassy Girl (2001): The Taming of the Yopki Kukhee Choo = 343 23 Take Care of My Cat (2001): The Architectonics of Female Subjectivity in Post-crisis South Korea Michelle Cho = 358 24 Oldboy (2003): Splendor and Truth in the Perversity Kyu Hyun Kim = 371 25 Repatriation (2003): A Very Personal Division Markus Nornes = 385 26 A Tale of Two Sisters (2003): Sadness and Suffering in South Korean Horror Daniel Martin = 395 27 3-Iron (2004): A Cinema of Paradoxes Hye Seung Chung = 408 28 The Host (2006): Life in Excess Peter Y. Paik = 423 29 Family Ties (2006): Of Journeys and Homes Chi-Yun Shin = 435 30 Secret Sunshine (2007): The Canon, the Criterion Collection, and the Question of Cinematic Religion David Scott Diffrient = 446 31 The Journals of Musan (2010): North Korean Migrants' Masculinity in South Korea Eun Ah Cho = 461 32 Stateless Things (2011): Queer Cinema and the Critique of the Heteronormative Nation-State Ungsan Kim = 473 33 Snowpiercer (2013): The Post-historical Catastrophe of a Biopolitical Ecosystem Seung-hoon Jeong = 486 34 Ode to My Father (2014): Korean War through Cinema Kyung Hyun Kim = 502 35 Train to Busan (2016): Glocalization, Korean Zombies, and a Man-Made Neoliberal Disaster Keith B. Wagner = 515 Chronology of Korean Cinema = 533 Filmography = 539 Contributors = 565 Index = 577

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