Virtual hallyu
Subtitle: Korean cinema of the global era
By: Kyung Hyun Kim
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780822350880; 9780822351016
Subjects: Motion pictures; Popular culture; Cultural industries; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : hallyu's virtuality; title: Virtual landscapes : Sopyonje, the power of Kangwon province, and the host; title: Viral colony: spring of Korean peninsula and epitaph; title: Virtual dictatorship : the president's barber and the president's last bang; title: Mea culpa : reading the North Korean as an ethnic other; title: Hong Sang-Soo's death, eroticism, and virtual nationalism; title: Virtual trauma : Lee Chang-Dong's oasis and secret sunshine; title: Park Chan-Wook's "unknowable" oldboy; title: The end of history, the beginning of historical films : Korea's new sag?k.