Brian Yecies - The Changing Face of Korean Cinema: 1960 to 2015

The rapid development of Korean cinema during the decades of the 1960s and 2000s reveals a dynamic cinematic history that runs parallel to the nations political, social, economic, and cultural transformation during these formative periods.

This book examines the ways in which South Korean cinema has undergone a transformation from an antiquated local industry in the 1960s into a thriving international cinema in the twenty-first century. It investigates the circumstances that allowed these two eras to emerge as creative watersheds and demonstrates the forces behind Koreas positioning of itself as an important contributor to regional and global culture, especially its interplay with Japan, Greater China, and the United States. Beginning with an explanation of the understudied operations of the film industry during its 1960s take-off, it then offers insight into the challenges that producers, directors, and policy makers faced in the 1970s and 1980s during the most volatile part of Park Chung Hees authoritarian rule and the subsequent Chun Doo-hwan military government. It moves on to explore the film industrys professionalization in the 1990s and subsequent international expansion in the 2000s. In doing so, it explores the nexus and tensions of film policy, producing, directing, genres, and the internationalization of Korean cinema over half a century.

By highlighting the recent transnational turn in national cinemas, this book underscores the impact of developments pioneered by Korean cinema on the transformation of Planet Hallyuwood. It will be of particular interest to students and scholars of Korean Studies and Film Studies.

Brian Yecies is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Wollongong, Australia.

Aegyung Shim is a past Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Transformation Research (ISTR) at the University of Wollongong, Australia.

Edited by Mark Selden, Cornell University, USA

The books in this series explore the political, social, economic, and cultural consequences of Asias transformations in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The series emphasizes the tumultuous interplay of local, national, regional, and global forces as Asia bids to become the hub of the world economy. While focusing on the contemporary, it also looks back to analyze the antecedents of Asias contested rise.

This series comprises several strands:

Asias Transformations

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3 Japans Comfort Women*
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4 Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy*
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18 The Future of USKorean Relations*
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20 Korean Society, second edition*
Civil society, democracy and the state
Edited by Charles K. Armstrong

21 Singapore*
The state and the culture of excess
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22 Pan-Asianism in Modern Japanese History*
Colonialism, regionalism and borders
Edited by Sven Saaler and J. Victor Koschmann

23 The Making of Modern Korea, 2nd Edition*
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24 Re-writing Culture in Taiwan*
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28 Chinese Society, third edition*
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