Im KwonTaek: The Making of a Korean National Cinema (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies),Used

Im KwonTaek: The Making of a Korean National Cinema (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies),Used

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Korean cinema was virtually unavailable to the West during the Japanese colonial period (19101945), and no film made before 1943 has been recovered even though Korea had an active filmmaking industry that produced at least 240 films. For a period of forty years, after Korea was liberated from colonialism, a time where Western imports were scarce, Korean cinema became an innovative force reflecting a society whose social and cultural norms were becoming less conservative. Im KwonTaek: The Making of a Korean National Cinema is a colleciton of essays written about Im KwonTaek, better know as the father of New Korean Cinema, that takes a critical look at the situations of filmmakers in South Korea.Written by leading Koreanists and scholars of Korean film in the United States, Im KwonTaek is the first scholarly treatment of Korean cinema. It establishes Im KwonTaek as the only major Korean director whose life's work covers the entire history of South Korea's military rule (19611992). It demonstrates Im's struggles with Korean cinema's historical contradictions and also shows how Im rose above political discord. The book includes an interview with Im, a chronology of Korean cinema and Korean history showing major dynastic periods and historical and political events, and a complete filmography.Im KwonTaek is timely and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Korean cinema. These essays situate Im KwonTaek within Korean filmmaking, placing him in industrial, creative, and social contexts, and closely examine some of his finest films. Im KwonTaek will interest students and scholars of film studies, Korean studies, religious studies, postcolonial studies, and Asian studies.

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