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Virtual Hallyu: Korean Cinema of the Global Era

Martin Scorsese

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“[T]his fine book . . . . enlarges our vision of one of the great national cinematic flowerings of the last decade.”—Martin Scorsese, from the forewordIn the late 1990s, South Korean film and other cultural products, broadly known as hallyu , gained unprecedented international popularity. Korean films earned an all-time high of $60.3 million in Japan in 2005, and they outperformed their Hollywood competitors at Korean box offices. In Virtual Hallyu, Kyung Hyun Kim reflects on the precariousness of Korean cinema’s success over the past decade. Arguing that state film policies and socioeconomic factors cannot fully explain cinema’s true potentiality, Kim draws on Deleuze’s concept of the virtual—according to which past and present and truth and falsehood coexist—to analyze the temporal anxieties and cinematic ironies embedded in screen figures such as a made-in-the-USA aquatic monster , a postmodern Chosun-era wizard , a schizo man-child , a weepy North Korean terrorist , a salary man turned vengeful fighting machine , and a sick nationalist . Kim maintains that the full significance of hallyu can only be understood by exposing the implicit and explicit ideologies of protonationalism and capitalism that, along with Korea’s ambiguous post-democratization and neoliberalism, are etched against the celluloid surfaces.

Language: English

Pages: 280

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Duke University Press Books

Release: October 10, 2011

ISBN: 0822351013

ISBN 13: 9780822351016

Virtual Hallyu: Korean Cinema of the Global Era

Martin Scorsese

3.8/5 ( ratings)

“[T]his fine book . . . . enlarges our vision of one of the great national cinematic flowerings of the last decade.”—Martin Scorsese, from the forewordIn the late 1990s, South Korean film and other cultural products, broadly known as hallyu , gained unprecedented international popularity. Korean films earned an all-time high of $60.3 million in Japan in 2005, and they outperformed their Hollywood competitors at Korean box offices. In Virtual Hallyu, Kyung Hyun Kim reflects on the precariousness of Korean cinema’s success over the past decade. Arguing that state film policies and socioeconomic factors cannot fully explain cinema’s true potentiality, Kim draws on Deleuze’s concept of the virtual—according to which past and present and truth and falsehood coexist—to analyze the temporal anxieties and cinematic ironies embedded in screen figures such as a made-in-the-USA aquatic monster , a postmodern Chosun-era wizard , a schizo man-child , a weepy North Korean terrorist , a salary man turned vengeful fighting machine , and a sick nationalist . Kim maintains that the full significance of hallyu can only be understood by exposing the implicit and explicit ideologies of protonationalism and capitalism that, along with Korea’s ambiguous post-democratization and neoliberalism, are etched against the celluloid surfaces.

Language: English

Pages: 280

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Duke University Press Books

Release: October 10, 2011

ISBN: 0822351013

ISBN 13: 9780822351016

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