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New Korean CinemaSouth Korean Golden Age Melodrama: Gender, Genre, and National Cinema

New Korean CinemaSouth Korean Golden Age Melodrama: Gender, Genre, and National Cinema Book Reviews New Korean Cinema edited by Chi-Yun Shin and Julian Stringer. Edinburgh and New York: Edinburgh University Press, 2005. 23 4 pp. $22.00 (paper) S outh Kor ean Golden A ge Melodrama: Gender, Gen re, and National Cinema edited by Kathleen McHugh and Nancy Abelmann. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2005. 262 pp. 27.95 (paper) South Korean cinema, which remained obscure until the late 1990s, has recently emerged as one of the most interesting cinemas on the international film scene. The increasing critical recognition and popularity of Korean cin­ ema has been accompanied by the publication of numerous English-language books dedicated to Korean films: Hyangjin Lee, Contempo r ar y Kor ean Cin­ ema: Culture, Id en tity, and Poli tics (Manchester, U.K. : Manchester Univer­ sity Press, 2001 ), David James et al., Im Kwon-T aek: The Makin g of a Kor ean National Cinema (Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press, 2001 ), Eung­ jun Min et al., Kor ean Film: Hi s tory, Resis tance and Democ r atic Ima gina tion (Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003 ), and Kyung Hyun Kim, The Remasculiniza ­ tion of Kor ean Cinema (Durham, N.C. : Duke University http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Korean Studies Duke University Press

New Korean CinemaSouth Korean Golden Age Melodrama: Gender, Genre, and National Cinema

Journal of Korean Studies , Volume 11 (1) – Sep 1, 2006

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Copyright © 2006 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
ISSN
0731-1613
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2158-1665
DOI
10.1353/jks.2006.0000
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Abstract

Book Reviews New Korean Cinema edited by Chi-Yun Shin and Julian Stringer. Edinburgh and New York: Edinburgh University Press, 2005. 23 4 pp. $22.00 (paper) S outh Kor ean Golden A ge Melodrama: Gender, Gen re, and National Cinema edited by Kathleen McHugh and Nancy Abelmann. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2005. 262 pp. 27.95 (paper) South Korean cinema, which remained obscure until the late 1990s, has recently emerged as one of the most interesting cinemas on the international film scene. The increasing critical recognition and popularity of Korean cin­ ema has been accompanied by the publication of numerous English-language books dedicated to Korean films: Hyangjin Lee, Contempo r ar y Kor ean Cin­ ema: Culture, Id en tity, and Poli tics (Manchester, U.K. : Manchester Univer­ sity Press, 2001 ), David James et al., Im Kwon-T aek: The Makin g of a Kor ean National Cinema (Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press, 2001 ), Eung­ jun Min et al., Kor ean Film: Hi s tory, Resis tance and Democ r atic Ima gina tion (Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003 ), and Kyung Hyun Kim, The Remasculiniza ­ tion of Kor ean Cinema (Durham, N.C. : Duke University

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Journal of Korean StudiesDuke University Press

Published: Sep 1, 2006

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