Korean Cinema in Global Contexts

Soyoung Kim is Professor of Cinema Studies at the Korea National University of Arts, Director of the Trans-Asia Screen Culture Institute, and Visiting Professor at Duke University, UCBerkeley and Irvine, She is the editor of the History of Korean Cinema ( 10 vols), National Research Foundation of Korea, co-editor of Electronic Elsewheres: Media, Technology, and the Experience of Social Space, with Chris Berry and Lynn Spiegel, and Geo-Spatiality in Asian and Oceanic Literature and Culture : Worlding Asia in the Anthropocene with Shiuhhuah Serena Chou and Rob Wilson.

• Introduction, Part 1. From Pre-Cinematic Culture to Trans-Cinema, 1.Cartography of Catastrophe: Pre-Colonial Surveys, Post-Colonial Vampires, and the Plight of Korean Modernity, 2.The State of Fantasy in Emergency: Fantasmatic Others in South Korean Films, 3.Modernity in Suspense: The Logic of Fetishism in Korean Cinema, 4.Do Not Include Me in Your Us': Peppermint Candy and the Politics of Difference, 5. Cine-Mania or Cinephilia: Film Festival and Identity Question, 6.The Birth of the Local Feminist Sphere in the Global Era: Yeoseongjang and 'Trans-cinema', Part 2. Korean Cinema in Trans-Asia Framework, 1. Inter-Asia Comparative Framework: Postcolonial Film Historiography in Taiwan and South Korea, 2.Post-colonial Genre as Contact Zone: Hwalgeuk and Action Cinema, 3. Geopolitical Fantasy: Continental (Manchurian) Action Movies during the Cold War Era, 4. Anagram of Inter-Asian Korean Film : The Case of My Sassy Girl, 5. Comparative Film Studies: Detour, Demon of Comparison and Dislocative Fantasy, Index.