{"product_id":"movie-migrations-transnational-genre-flows-and-south-korean-cinema-new-directions-in-international-studies-9780813569970","title":"Movie Migrations Transnational Genre Flows and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMovie Migrations\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: South Korean Cinema’s Transnational Trajectories\u003cbr\u003e Part I   From Classical Hollywood to the Korean Golden Age: Cinephilia, Modernization, and Postcolonial Genre Flows\u003cbr\u003e 1   Toward a Strategic Korean Cinephilia: A Transnational \u003ci\u003eDétournement\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e Part II   From Cinematic Seoul to Global Hollywood: Cosmopolitanism, Empire, and Transnational Genre Flows\u003cbr\u003e 5   Reinventing the Historical Drama, De-Westernizing a French Classic: Genre, Gender, and the Transnational Imaginary in \u003ci\u003eUntold Scandal\u003c\/i\u003e6   From \u003ci\u003eGojira\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eGoemul\u003c\/i\u003e: “Host” Cities and “Post” Histories in East Asian Monster Movies7   Extraordinarily Rendered: \u003ci\u003eOldboy\u003c\/i\u003e, Transmedia Adaptation, and the US War on Terror8   A \u003ci\u003eThirst\u003c\/i\u003e for Diversity: Trends in Korean “Multicultural Films,” from \u003ci\u003eBandhobi\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eWhere is Ronny?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Into “Spreadable” Spaces: Netflix, YouTube, and the Question of Cultural TranslatabilityNotesIndex ","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405786980695,"sku":"9780813569970","price":28.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813569970.jpg?v=1730493616","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/movie-migrations-transnational-genre-flows-and-south-korean-cinema-new-directions-in-international-studies-9780813569970","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}