The Pusan International Film Festival
Subtitle: South Korean cinema and globalization
By: SooJeong Ahn
Series: TransAsia : screen cultures; TransAsia: screen cultures
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press; Eurospan [distributor]
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Hong Kong; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9789888083589; 9789888083596
Subjects: Film festivals; History; Motion picture industry; Motion pictures and globalization; Pusan Kukche Yŏnghwaje
Other titles: South Korean cinema and globalization; Project Muse UPCC books
Description: This book is the first book-length study of a non-Western film festival. While studies of film festivals were still relatively uncommon in the 1990s, the new millennium has seen a growing academic interest in these festive events where culture often goes hand in hand with commerce. Recently, a variety of articles, book chapters, monographs and dissertations have been devoted to various aspects of the film festival phenomenon. However, very little primary empirical research has been conducted to date on non-Western film festivals. Therefore, this project is original and timely and will complement existing publications, without duplicating any. This project argues that the initiation, development and growth of the Pusan International Film Festival need to be understood as the result of a productive tension between the demands of the local, the national, and the regional, and the festival's efforts to serve these different constituencies. The book also reflects the complexities brought about by the rapid transformation of the South Korean film industry which has striven to reach out to the global market since the late 1990s by closely looking at the first international film festival, PIFF in South Korea. As this book focuses upon PIFF's vital role in linking with its national and regional film industries, it will offer a fresh perspective towards the existing discussions on the "Korean wave" in the Asian region. Drawing on a wide range of primary materials and exclusive interviews, the book offers a unique and original perspective on the film festival phenomenon that will be of use to scholars of East Asian cinema, transnational media flows, and contemporary Asian culture more broadly.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-213) and index.
Table of contents: title: Note to reader; title: Abbreviations; title: Introduction; title: Film festivals between the national and the regional in the age of globalization; title: 1. Why Pusan? : the political economy of a film festival; title: 2. Negotiating a place between Korean cinema and Asian cinema : programming politics; title: 3. Re-imagining the past : programming retrospectives; title: 4. A global film producer : the Pusan promotion plan; title: 5. Remapping Asian cinema : the tenth anniversary in 2005; title: Conclusion : toward a new channel; title: Appendix 1. Film festivals in East Asia (1999); title: Appendix 2. PIFF over 15 years (1996-2010); title: Appendix 3. Main program sections of PIFF; title: Appendix 4. An overview of the tenth PIFF (October 6-14, 2005); title: Appendix 5. PPP project accomplishments (1998-2005); title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.