Seoul Searching

Frances Gateward is Professor of Film Studies at Ursinus College. She is the editor of Zhang Yimou: Interviews and coeditor (with Murray Pomerance) of Where the Boys Are: Cinemas of Masculinity and Youth.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments IntroductionFrances Gateward Part 1: Industry Trends and Popular Genres 1. Korean Cinema after Liberation: Production, Industry, and Regulatory TrendsSeung Hyun Park 2. Christmas in August and Korean MelodramaDarcy Paquet 3. Storming the Big Screen: The Shiri SyndromeChi-Yun Shin and Julian Stringer 4. Timeless, Bottomless Bad Movies: Or, Consuming Youth in the New Korean CinemaDavid Desser Part 2: Directing New Korean Cinema 5. Scream and Scream Again: Korean Modernity as a House of Horrors in the Films of Kim Ki-youngChris Berry 6. Forgetting to Remember, Remembering to Forget: The Politics of Memory and Modernity in the Fractured Films of Lee Chang-dong and Hong Sang-sooHye Seung Chung and David Scott Diffrient 7. Reflexivity and Identity in Park Chul-soo's Farewell, My DarlingHyangsoon Yi 8. Nowhere to Hide: The Tumultuous Materialism of Lee Myung-seAnne Rutherford 9. Closing the Circle: Why Has Bodhidharma Left for the East?Linda C. Ehrlich Part 3: Narratives of the National 10. Waiting to Exhale: The Colonial Experience and the Trouble with My Own BreathingFrances Gateward 11. Crossing the Border to the "Other" Side: Dynamics of Interaction between North and South Koreans in Spy Li Cheol-jin and Joint Security AreaSuk-Young Kim 12. Race, Gender, and Postcolonial Identity in Kim Ki-duk's Address UnknownMyung Ja Kim 13. Transgressing Boundaries: From Sexual Abuse to Eating Disorders in 301/302Diane Carson 14. Taking the Plunge: Representing Queer Desire in Contemporary South Korean CinemaRobert L. Cagle List of ContributorsIndex

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