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Table of Contents

The Korean Cinema Book.- Contents.- Preface (800 words).- Author TBC.- Introduction (10, 000 words).- Nikki J.Y. Lee and Julian Stringer.- Part I: Historical Trajectories.- 1. Modern History and Cultural Production in Korea (8000 words).- Michael Robinson.- 2. Film Policy and Censorship (8000 words).- Darcy Paquet.- 3. The Culture of Film Exhibition: History and Characteristics (7000 words)
Cho Jun-hyung.- 4. Technology and Film Style (10,000 words).- Chung Chong-hwa.- 5. Film Stars and Performance: Historicizing Cultural Engagement (7000 words).- Chung-kang Kim.- 6. Independent Filmmaking in South Korea (6000 words).- Nohchool Park.- 7. South Korean Political Documentaries (6000 words).- Eunkwang Huh.- Part II: Colonial Korean Cinema.- 8. Film Audiences without Movie Theaters: Early Korean Film Culture, 1897-1919 (6000 words).- Dong Hoon Kim.- 9. Melodic Variations of Colonial Modernity: From Itinerant Byeonsa to the Talkies, 1907-1937 (6000 words).- Roald Maliangkay and Brian Yecies.- 10. Invaded Homeland: Colonialism and Cinema Technology in Early Cinema (6000 words).- Baek Moon-im.- 11. The Urban Life of Colonial Chosun and Crossroads of Youth (1934) (6000 words).- Jeong Min-Ah.- 12. The Mother in Chos?n (Korean) Cinema: Between Realism and Wartime Propaganda (5000 words).- Kyeong-Hee Choi and Hyun-Hee Park.- Part III: Post-War South Korean Genres.- 13. 1950s Korean Cinema and the Culture of the Cold War (5000 words).- Yom Chan Hee.- 14. Korean Melodrama: Dynamics of the Melodramatic, the Sinpa-tic, and the National (6000 words).- Eunsun Cho.- 15. State, Family and Laughter: The Historical Development of Korean Comedy from the Late 1950s to the 1970s (5000 words).- Moon Gwan-gyu.-p 16. Sex-Exploitation Movies in the 1970s: The Politics of Decadence and the Military Regime's Hypernationalization Project (6000 words).- Sun-Young You.- 17. Gangster Films (5000 words).- Author TBC.- 18. Some 'R' Points: Repression, Repulsion, Revelation, and Redemption in South Korean Horror Films (6000 words).- David Scott Diffrient.- 19. Regional Hits: Korean Blockbusters (5000 words).- Jinhee Choi.- Part IV: North Korean Cinema.- 20. North Korean Cinema: An Historical Overview (5000 words) Hyangjin Lee.- 21. The Birth of North Korean Cinema and Joo In-gyu (6000 words).- Han Sang Eon.- 22. Cinema and the Formation of North Korean Style Socialism, 1958-1966 (7000 words).- Ham Chung Beom .- 23. The Representation of Femininity in North Korean Juche Films (5000 words).- Lee Myung-ja.- 24. My North Korean Cinema (5000 words).- Author TBC.- Part V: Contemporary South Korean Film Cultures: Transnational Dimensions.- 25. The Development of Korean Cinema Studies in North America (6000 words).- Kyung Hyun Kim.- 26. What Price Glory?: Transnational Canon Formations and the Local Reception of Korean Cinema (6000 words).- Hye Seung Chung.- 27. The Promotion and Reception of Korean Cinema in the UK (6000 words).- Daniel Martin.- 28. Hollywood in Korea/Korea in Hollywood (6000 words).- Julian Stringer.- 29. Inter-Asia Film Studies: The Case of Korea/Japan (5000 words).- Kim Soyoung.- 30. The 'Asianization' of South Korean Cinema (6000).- Nikki J. Y. Lee.- Appendices: Bibliography, Electronic Resources, Film Availability (DVD), Glossary.- TOTAL = 187, 800 words (excluding Appendices).

Product details

Published Apr 16 2026
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 352
ISBN 9781844574261
Imprint British Film Institute
Illustrations 90 b/w
Dimensions 246 x 189 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Nikki Lee

NIKKI J. Y. LEE is Senior Lecturer in English, Cul…

Anthology Editor

Julian Stringer

JULIAN STRINGER is Associate Professor in Film an…

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