Korean Horror Cinema /

Korean Horror Cinema / / Alison Peirse, Daniel Martin.

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The first detailed English-language book on Korean horror introduces the cultural specificity of the genre to an international audience, from the iconic monsters of gothic horror, to the avenging killers of Oldboy and Death Bell. Beginning in the 1960s, it traces a path through the history of Korean...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
VerfasserIn:
Peirse, Alison,
Martin, Daniel,
MitwirkendeR:
Byrne, James,
Cagle, Robert L.,
Chung, Hye Seung,
Diffrient, David Scott,
Hwang, Yun Mi,
Kim, Kyu Hyun,
Lee, Hyangjin,
Lee, Nikki J. Y.,
Martin, Daniel,
Morris, Mark,
Oh, Eunha,
Peirse, Alison,
Shin, Chi-Yun,
Smith, Iain Robert,
Stringer, Julian,
Wing-Fai, Leung,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2013
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Classic Korean Horror
  • 1. Family, Death and the wonhon in Four Films of the 1960s
  • 2. Creepy Liver-Eating Fox Ladies: The Thousand Year Old Fox and Korea’s Gumiho
  • 3. War Horror and Anti-Communism: From Piagol to Rainy Days
  • 4. Mother’s Grudge and Woman’s Wail: The Monster-Mother and Korean Horror Film
  • Part II: Contemporary ‘Domestic’ Horror
  • 5. Heritage of Horrors: Reclaiming the Female Ghost in Shadows in the Palace
  • 6. Acacia and Adoption Anxiety in Korean Horror Cinema
  • 7. Apartment Horror: Sorum and Possessed
  • 8. The Face(s) of Korean Horror Film: Toward a Cinematic Physiognomy of Affective Extremes
  • 9. Death Bell and High-School Horror
  • Part III: Contemporary ‘International’ Horror
  • 10. Between the Local and the Global: ‘Asian Horror’ in Ahn Byung-ki’s Phone and Bunshinsaba
  • 11. Diary of a Lost Girl: Victoriana, Intertextuality and A Tale of Two
  • 12. From A Tale of Two Sisters to The Uninvited: A Tale of Two Texts
  • 13. Oldboy goes to Bollywood: Zinda and the Transnational Appropriation of South Korean ‘Extreme’ Cinema
  • 14. Park Chan-wook’s Thirst: Body, Guilt and Exsanguination
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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