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Contents Acknowledgments | ix beyond “extreme”: the cinema of ressentiment | 1 Kim Ki-duk: Towards a More Perfect Imperfection 1 An Auteur Is Born: Fishhooks, Critical Debates, and Transnational Canons 12 On Suffering and Sufferance: Postcolonial Pain and the “Purloined Letter” in Address Unknown 26 Reconciling the Paradox of Silence and Apologia: Bad Guy, The Isle, and 3-Iron 45 Neofeminist Revisions: Female Bodies and Semiotic Chora in Birdcage Inn and Samaritan Girl 69 The Bodhisattva Inner-Eye: Inwardly Drawn Transcendence in Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter . . . and Spring 104 interview with kim ki-duk: from crocodile to address unknown, by kim so-hee | 127 Filmography | 141 Bibliography | 147 Index | 155 ...

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