Im Kwon-Taek: The Making of a Korean National Cinema

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments 7 Preface David E. James 9 i Korean Cinema and Im Kwon-Taek: An Overview Kyung Hyun Kim 19 2 Im Kwon-Taek: Korean National Cinema and Buddhism David E. James 47 3 The Female Body and Enunciation in Adada and Surrogate Mother Eunsun Cho U 4 The Politics of Gender, Aestheticism, and Cultural Nationalism in Sopyonje and The Genealogy Chungmoo Choi 107 CONTENTS 5 Sopyonje: Its Cultural and Historical Meaning Cho HaeJoeing 134 6 Sopyonje and the Inner Domain of National Culture Julian Stringer 157 7 Fly High, Run Fur: Kaebyok and Tonghak Ideology Ti Hyoin 182 8 Is This How the War Is Remembered?: Deceptive Sex and the Re-masculinized Nation in The Taebaek Mountains Kyung Hyun Kim 197 9 In Defense of Continuity: Discourses on Tradition and the Mother in Festival Han Ju Kwak 223 10 An Interview with Im Kwon-Taek 247 Appendixes Kyung Hyun Kim 1 Korea: Political and Cultural Events, 1876 to 2000 267 2 Im Kwon-Taek Filmography 271 Selected English Language Bibliography of Korean Cinema 275 Contributors 279 Index 281 ...