Chi-Yun Shin is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Sheffield Hallam University. Julian Stringer is a Lecturer in Film Studies in the Institute of Film at the University of Nottingham.

• Introduction; JULIAN STRINGER; Part I: Forging a New Cinema; 1; Contemporary Cultural Production in South Korea: Vanishing Meta-Narratives of Nation; MICHAEL ROBINSON; 2; The Korean Film Industry: 1992 to the Present; DARCY PAQUET; 3; Globalization and New Korean Cinema; JEEYOUNG SHIN; 4; 'Chunhyang': Marketing an Old Tradition in New Korean Cinema; HYANGJIN LEE; 5; 'Cine-Mania' or Cinephilia: Film Festivals and the Identity Question; SOYOUNG KIM; Part II: Generic Transformations; 6; Putting Korean Cinema in Its Place: Genre Classifications and the Contexts of Reception; JULIAN STRINGER; 7; Horror as Critique in 'Tell Me Something' and 'Sympathy for Mr; Vengeance'; KYU HYUN KIM; 8; Two of a Kind: Gender and Friendship in 'Friend' and 'Take Care of My Cat'; CHI-YUN SHIN; 9; 'Just Because': Comedy, Melodrama, and Youth Violence in Attack the Gas Station; NANCY ABELMANN AND JUNG-AH CHOI; 10; All at Sea?: National History and Historiology in Soul's Protest and Phantom, the Submarine; CHRIS BERRY; Part III: Social Change and Civil Society; 11; Peppermint Candy: The Will Not to Forget; AARON HAN JOON MAGNAN-PARK; 12; The Awkward Traveler in 'Turning Gate'; KYUNG HYUN KIM; 13; Memento Mori and Other Ghostly Sexualities; ANDREW GROSSMAN AND JOORAN LEE; 14; Interethnic Romance and Political Reconciliation in 'Asako in Ruby Shoes'; HYE SEUNG CHUNG AND DAVID SCOTT DIFFRIENT; Glossary of Key Terms; CHI-YUN SHIN; Bibliography of Works on Korean Cinema; SOOJEONG AHN.

A vital addition to the body of work available to those teaching Asian cinema in the west. It is a clearly structured and well written series of approaches to Korean Cinema.

Chi-Yun Shin is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Sheffield Hallam University. Julian Stringer is a Lecturer in Film Studies in the Institute of Film at the University of Nottingham.

• Introduction; JULIAN STRINGER; Part I: Forging a New Cinema; 1; Contemporary Cultural Production in South Korea: Vanishing Meta-Narratives of Nation; MICHAEL ROBINSON; 2; The Korean Film Industry: 1992 to the Present; DARCY PAQUET; 3; Globalization and New Korean Cinema; JEEYOUNG SHIN; 4; 'Chunhyang': Marketing an Old Tradition in New Korean Cinema; HYANGJIN LEE; 5; 'Cine-Mania' or Cinephilia: Film Festivals and the Identity Question; SOYOUNG KIM; Part II: Generic Transformations; 6; Putting Korean Cinema in Its Place: Genre Classifications and the Contexts of Reception; JULIAN STRINGER; 7; Horror as Critique in 'Tell Me Something' and 'Sympathy for Mr; Vengeance'; KYU HYUN KIM; 8; Two of a Kind: Gender and Friendship in 'Friend' and 'Take Care of My Cat'; CHI-YUN SHIN; 9; 'Just Because': Comedy, Melodrama, and Youth Violence in Attack the Gas Station; NANCY ABELMANN AND JUNG-AH CHOI; 10; All at Sea?: National History and Historiology in Soul's Protest and Phantom, the Submarine; CHRIS BERRY; Part III: Social Change and Civil Society; 11; Peppermint Candy: The Will Not to Forget; AARON HAN JOON MAGNAN-PARK; 12; The Awkward Traveler in 'Turning Gate'; KYUNG HYUN KIM; 13; Memento Mori and Other Ghostly Sexualities; ANDREW GROSSMAN AND JOORAN LEE; 14; Interethnic Romance and Political Reconciliation in 'Asako in Ruby Shoes'; HYE SEUNG CHUNG AND DAVID SCOTT DIFFRIENT; Glossary of Key Terms; CHI-YUN SHIN; Bibliography of Works on Korean Cinema; SOOJEONG AHN.

A vital addition to the body of work available to those teaching Asian cinema in the west. It is a clearly structured and well written series of approaches to Korean Cinema.

Chi-Yun Shin is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Sheffield Hallam University. Julian Stringer is a Lecturer in Film Studies in the Institute of Film at the University of Nottingham.

• Introduction; JULIAN STRINGER; Part I: Forging a New Cinema; 1; Contemporary Cultural Production in South Korea: Vanishing Meta-Narratives of Nation; MICHAEL ROBINSON; 2; The Korean Film Industry: 1992 to the Present; DARCY PAQUET; 3; Globalization and New Korean Cinema; JEEYOUNG SHIN; 4; 'Chunhyang': Marketing an Old Tradition in New Korean Cinema; HYANGJIN LEE; 5; 'Cine-Mania' or Cinephilia: Film Festivals and the Identity Question; SOYOUNG KIM; Part II: Generic Transformations; 6; Putting Korean Cinema in Its Place: Genre Classifications and the Contexts of Reception; JULIAN STRINGER; 7; Horror as Critique in 'Tell Me Something' and 'Sympathy for Mr; Vengeance'; KYU HYUN KIM; 8; Two of a Kind: Gender and Friendship in 'Friend' and 'Take Care of My Cat'; CHI-YUN SHIN; 9; 'Just Because': Comedy, Melodrama, and Youth Violence in Attack the Gas Station; NANCY ABELMANN AND JUNG-AH CHOI; 10; All at Sea?: National History and Historiology in Soul's Protest and Phantom, the Submarine; CHRIS BERRY; Part III: Social Change and Civil Society; 11; Peppermint Candy: The Will Not to Forget; AARON HAN JOON MAGNAN-PARK; 12; The Awkward Traveler in 'Turning Gate'; KYUNG HYUN KIM; 13; Memento Mori and Other Ghostly Sexualities; ANDREW GROSSMAN AND JOORAN LEE; 14; Interethnic Romance and Political Reconciliation in 'Asako in Ruby Shoes'; HYE SEUNG CHUNG AND DAVID SCOTT DIFFRIENT; Glossary of Key Terms; CHI-YUN SHIN; Bibliography of Works on Korean Cinema; SOOJEONG AHN.

A vital addition to the body of work available to those teaching Asian cinema in the west. It is a clearly structured and well written series of approaches to Korean Cinema.