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Book SynopsisAs the two billion YouTube views for “Gangnam Style” would indicate, South Korean popular culture has begun to enjoy new prominence on the global stage. Yet, as this timely new study reveals, the nation's film industry has long been a hub for transnational exchange, producing movies that put a unique spin on familiar genres, while influencing world cinema from Hollywood to Bollywood.
Trade Review"Deftly weaves together eclectic, interdisciplinary references, from transnational literary studies to political economy, translation and adaptation studies, film genre studies, and inter-Asian Pacific Rim cultural studies." * The Journal of Asian Studies *
"Brimming with insight and detail, this is the go-to book for South Korean genre cinema, a remarkable achievement of scholarship, richly detailed with frame grabs and production stills … Highly recommended." * CHOICE *
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Movie Migrations offers insightful readings of the deep connections between Korean and foreign films. A model of transnational scholarship, it will revitalize genre studies." -- Christina Klein * author of Cold War Orientalism *
"A magnificent service to the scholarly analysis of South Korean cinema. This book is insightful, eloquent, and fully engaged. It has been researched and written with tremendous rigour and commitment." -- Julian Stringer * University of Nottingham *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: 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 Melodrama2 The Mamas and the Papas: Cross-Cultural Remakes, Literary Adaptations, and Cinematic “Parent” Texts3 The Nervous Laughter of Vanishing Fathers: Modernization Comedies of the 1960s4 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 Scandal6 From
Gojira to
Goemul: “Host” Cities and “Post” Histories in East Asian Monster Movies7 Extraordinarily Rendered:
Oldboy, Transmedia Adaptation, and the US War on Terror8 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 TranslatabilityNotesIndex
