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Kim offers in-depth examinations of more than a dozen of the most representative films produced in Korea since 1980. In the process, he draws on the theories of Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Zizek, Gilles Deleuze, Rey Chow, and Kaja Silverman to follow the historical trajectory of screen representations of Korean men from self-loathing beings who desire to be controlled to subjects who are not only self-sufficient but also capable of destroying others. He discusses a range of movies from art-house films including To the Starry Island (1993) and The Day a Pig Fell into the Well (1996) to higher-grossing, popular films like Whale Hunting (1984) and Shiri (1999). He considers the work of several Korean auteurs--Park Kwang-su, Jang Sun-woo, and Hong Sang-su. Kim argues that Korean cinema must begin to imagine gender relations that defy the contradictions of sexual repression in order to move beyond such binary struggles as those between the traditional and the modern, or the traumatic and the post-traumatic.
Author: Kyung Hyun Kim
ISBN-10: 0822332671
ISBN-13: 9780822332671
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/08/2004
Pages: 331
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.12w x 0.82d
Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2004 pg. 301
Kyung Hyun Kim is Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Irvine.
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