Frances Gateward is Professor of Film Studies at Ursinus College. She is the editor of Zhang Yimou: Interviews and coeditor (with Murray Pomerance) of Where the Boys Are: Cinemas of Masculinity and Youth.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Frances Gateward
Part 1: Industry Trends and Popular Genres
1. Korean Cinema after Liberation: Production, Industry, and Regulatory Trends
Seung Hyun Park
2. Christmas in August and Korean Melodrama
Darcy Paquet
3. Storming the Big Screen: The Shiri Syndrome
Chi-Yun Shin and Julian Stringer
4. Timeless, Bottomless Bad Movies: Or, Consuming Youth in the New Korean Cinema
David Desser
Part 2: Directing New Korean Cinema
5. Scream and Scream Again: Korean Modernity as a House of Horrors in the Films of Kim Ki-young
Chris Berry
6. Forgetting to Remember, Remembering to Forget: The Politics of Memory and Modernity in the Fractured Films of Lee Chang-dong and Hong Sang-soo
Hye Seung Chung and David Scott Diffrient
7. Reflexivity and Identity in Park Chul-soo's Farewell, My Darling
Hyangsoon Yi
8. Nowhere to Hide: The Tumultuous Materialism of Lee Myung-se
Anne Rutherford
9. Closing the Circle: Why Has Bodhidharma Left for the East?
Linda C. Ehrlich
Part 3: Narratives of the National
10. Waiting to Exhale: The Colonial Experience and the Trouble with My Own Breathing
Frances Gateward
11. Crossing the Border to the "Other" Side: Dynamics of Interaction between North and South Koreans in Spy Li Cheol-jin and Joint Security Area
Suk-Young Kim
12. Race, Gender, and Postcolonial Identity in Kim Ki-duk's Address Unknown
Myung Ja Kim
13. Transgressing Boundaries: From Sexual Abuse to Eating Disorders in 301/302
Diane Carson
14. Taking the Plunge: Representing Queer Desire in Contemporary South Korean Cinema
Robert L. Cagle
List of Contributors
Index