The South Korean Film Renaissance: Local Hitmakers, Global Provocateurs - Rilegato

Choi, Jinhee

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ISBN 10: 0819569399 ISBN 13: 9780819569394

Casa editrice: Wesleyan Univ Pr, 2010

Riassunto

For the past decade, the Korean film industry has enjoyed a renaissance. With innovative storytelling and visceral effects, Korean films not only have been commercially viable in the domestic and regional markets but also have appealed to cinephiles everywhere on the international festival circuit. This book provides both an industrial and an aesthetic account of how the Korean film industry managed to turn an economic crisis--triggered in part by globalizing processes in the world film industry--into a fiscal and cultural boom. Jinhee Choi examines the ways in which Korean film production companies, backed by affluent corporations and venture capitalists, concocted a variety of winning production trends. Through close analyses of key films, Choi demonstrates how contemporary Korean cinema portrays issues immediate to its own Korean audiences while incorporating the transnational aesthetics of Hollywood and other national cinemas such as Hong Kong and Japan. Appendices include data on box office rankings, numbers of films produced and released, market shares, and film festival showings.

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L'autore:

JINHEE CHOI is a lecturer in film studies at the University of Kent in the U.K. She is the coeditor of Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures (2005) and Horror to the Extreme: Changing Boundaries in Asian Cinema (2009). She has widely published in such journals as the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, the British Journal of Aesthetics, Asian Cinema, Post Script, and Jump Cut.

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How a homegrown cinema took on Hollywood and dazzled Cannes? Over the past decade, Korean cinema has proven to be commercially viable in the domestic and regional markets while also appealing to cinephiles on the international festival circuit. Jinhee Choi examines how the Korean film industry turned an economic crisis into a cinematic renaissance in the face of globalization, and reveals how Korean cinema has transformed narrative and style in various production trends, portraying issues immediate to Korean audiences while incorporating the transnational aesthetics of Hollywood, Europe, and Asia. Appendixes include box office rankings, numbers of films produced and released, market shares, and film festival showings.

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• Editore: Wesleyan Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0819569399
• ISBN 13: 9780819569394
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 252