Virtual Hallyu : Korean Cinema of the Global Era, Hardcover by Kim, Kyung Hyu...

Description: Virtual Hallyu : Korean Cinema of the Global Era, Hardcover by Kim, Kyung Hyun, ISBN 0822350882, ISBN-13 9780822350880, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK &;[T]his fin . . . . enlarges our vision of one of the great national cinematic flowerings of the last decade.&;&;Martin Scorsese, from the foreword In the late 1990s, South Korean film and other cultural products, broadly known as hallyu (Korean wave), gained unprecedented international popularity. Korean films earned an all-time high of $ million in Japan in 2005, and they outperformed their Hollywood competitors at Korean box offices. In Virtual Hallyu, Kyung Hyun Kim reflects on the precariousness of Korean cinema&;s success over the past decade. Arguing that state film policies and socioeconomic factors cannot fully explain cinema&;s true potentiality, Kim draws on Deleuze&;s concept of the virtual&;according to which past and present and truth and falsehood coexist&;to analyze the temporal anxieties and cinematic ironies embedded in screen figures such as a made-in-the-USA aquatic monster (The Host), a postmodern Chosun-era wizard (Jeon Woo-chi), a schizo man-child (Oasis), a weepy North Korean terrorist (Typhoon), a salary man turned vengeful fighting machine (Oldboy), and a sick nationalist (the repatriated colonial-era film Spring of Korean Peninsula). Kim maintains that the full significance of hallyu can only be understood by exposing the implicit and explicit ideologies of protonationalism and capitalism that, along with Korea&;s ambiguous post-democratization and neoliberalism, are etched against the celluloid surfaces.

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Book Title: Virtual Hallyu : Korean Cinema of the Global Era

Publisher: Duke University Press

Publication Year: 2011

Subject: History

Number of Pages: 280 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Virtual Hallyu: Korean Cinema of the Global Era

Type: Textbook

Author: Kyung Hyun Kim

Format: Hardcover