Overview
World-renowned South Korean directors, including Park Chan-wook and Bong Joon Ho, cite Kim Ki-young as being the greatest Korean influence on their work. During his thirty year career, Kim Ki-young produced thirty-three films and became revered by critics within the national and international community as one of the few South Korean 'auteurs'. As the first comprehensive scholarly volume on Kim Ki-young in English, ReFocus: The Films of Kim Ki-young covers his entire career and history of cinematic work, highlighting the thematic and stylistic singularity of Kim's oeuvre, which was produced relative to the specific historical and cultural conditions of post-war South Korea. It offers an innovative departure point from which to explore South Korean film relative to the wider history of world cinema, in addition to situating Kim's work within the broader fields of Korean modern history, transnational cinema and cultural studies.
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Author: Chung-kang Kim (Associate Professor in the Department of Theater and Film, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea)
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.449kg
ISBN: 9781399512947
ISBN 10: 1399512943
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 17 April 2023
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Table of Contents
List of Figures Notes on Film Titles, Romanization of Korean Names, and Film FestivalAcknowledgementNotes on Contributors Introduction: Kim Ki-young, The First Global South Korean Auteur - Chung-kang Kim Part 1: Beyond the Border: Transnational/Hybridity/Border-Crossing 1. Kim Ki-young at the Intersection of Cold War Alliance, Reconstruction, and the Artistic Impulse - Han Sang Kim 2. ‘We Shall All Need That Basket/A-Frame Carrier’ A Comparative Analysis of Goryeojang (1963) and Ballad of Narayama (1958/1983) - Kyu Hyun Kim 3. Love Thy Enemy: Kim Ki-young’s exploration of Korean-Japanese romance in The Sea Knows (1961) - Russell Edwards Part 2: Beyond the Norm: Psychology, Biopolitics, and Sexuality 4. Refiguring The Housemaid (1960)’s Singularity: from Dualism to Triadism Based on the Lacanian Perspective - Sohyoun Kim 5. Men, Women, and the Electric Household: Kim Ki-young’s Housemaid Films - Steve Choe 6. To Speak and To Be Spoken For: Deafness, Stuttering and the Women in the Films of Kim Ki-young - Ariel Schudson Part 3: Becoming an (Global) Auteur 7. The Intersection of Authorship and Film Regulation During the Period of Military Rule: An Analysis of Kim Ki-young’s National Policy Films, Soil (1978) and Water Lady (1979) - Molly Kim 8. Rediscovering Kim Ki-young: The Rise of the South Korean Auteur on the Film Festival Circuit - Jason Bechevaise Appendix
Reviews
"""This illuminating volume on one of South Korea's most fascinating and eccentric directors provides in-depth readings of Kim's films, while at the same time examining key themes relevant to Korean cinema as a whole: national identity, gender, state control, and Korea's complex relationship with its former colonizer Japan."" -Darcy Paquet, author of New Korean Cinema: Breaking the Waves"
Author Information
Chung-kang Kim is Associate Professor in the Department of Theater and Film at Hanyang University, South Korea. Her research considers the realms of Korean and East Asian cinema, cultural studies, gender, race, sexuality studies, and (trans)national visual culture. She is a co-author of Queer Korea (2020), Rediscovering Korean Cinema (2019), The Holy Nation: Gender and Sexuality in Law and Science (2017), and Orphans, People of No Heritage (2014). Her articles appear in various journals including Journal of the History of Sexuality, The Journal of Korean Studies, and The Journal of Literature and Film.
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