Movie migrations
Subtitle: transnational genre flows and South Korean cinema
By: Hye Seung Chung and David Scott Diffrient
Contributors: Diffrient, David Scott, 1972-
Series: New directions in international studies; New directions in international studies
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780813569987; 9780813569970
Subjects: Motion pictures; Culture in motion pictures; Motion pictures and transnationalism; Motion pictures and globalization; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-278) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: South Korean cinema's transnational trajectories; title: Part. I. From classical Hollywood to the Korean golden age: cinephilia, modernization, and postcolonial genre flows. 1. Toward a strategic Korean cinephilia: a transnational détournement of Hollywood melodrama; title: 2. The mamas and the papas: cross-cultural remakes, literary adaptations, and cinematic "parent" texts; title: 3. The nervous laughter of vanishing fathers: modernization comedies of the 1960s; title: 4. Once upon a time in Manchuria: classic and contemporary Korean westerns; title: pt. II. From cinematic Seoul to global Hollywood: cosmopolitanism, empire, and transnational genre flows. 5. Reinventing the historical drama, de-westernizing a French classic: genre, gender, and the transnational imaginary in untold scandal; title: 6. From Gojira to Goemul: "host" cities and "post" histories in East Asian monster movies; title: 7. Extraordinarily rendered: oldboy, transmedia adaptation, and the US war on terror; title: 8. A thirst for diversity: trends in Korean "multicultural films", from Bandhobi to Where is Ronny?; title: Conclusion: into "spreadable" spaces: Netflix, YouTube, and the question of cultural translatability.