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 spin on familiar genres, while influencing world cinema from Hollywood to Bollywood. 

Acknowledgments

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 Détournement 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
 

Part 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

Notes

Index

Hye Seung Chung and David Scott Diffrient