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Asian film online: volumes 1 & 2
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Call Number: Electronic resourceAsian Film Online offers a view of Asian culture as seen through the lens of the independent Asian filmmaker. Through a selection of over 1,000 narrative feature films, documentaries and shorts curated by film scholars and critics, the collection offers highly relevant perspectives and insights onto themes relevant across Asia, including modernity, globalization, female agency, social and political unrest, and cultural and sexual identity. ... -
Cinema Korea byCall Number: Streaming videoThe Korean film industry, which once struggled to attract domestic audiences, has been successfully exporting its movies and expanding its influence throughout Asia, Europe and North America in the past decade.
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Korean cinema from Oxford Bibliographies Online
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Call Number: Electronic resourceISBN: 9780199791286The current surge of interest in Korean cinema is acknowledged to have been initiated by the international success of Kang Je-kyu’s Shiri (1999), an exemplary Hollywood-style action thriller. -
Korean cinema unleashed byCall Number: Jones Media DVD #11938This film documents the history and development of Korean film-making through these topics: 1. Melodramas: Korean sensibilities; 2. Grand theme of Korean cinema: a nation divided; 3. The artists of Korean cinema.
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Seoul on screen: understanding urban space through films byCall Number: Jones Media PN 1993.5 .K6 S46 20225 films with accompanying commentary books in both Korean and English.
Internet resource(s)
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KoBizThis site was formerly known as the Korean Film Council (KOFIC). Their aim is to promote Korean film through a variety of media. The site hosts several magazines on Korean film including Korean Cinema Today and Korean Film Observatory.
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Korean Classic Film from the Korean Film ArchiveThis is the Korean Film Archive YouTube Channel. It includes 110 classic Korean films from the 1930s onwards available for free viewing.
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Korean Film ArchiveThe Korean Film Archive collects all image data including national and international films and non-film materials (videos, audio, posters, stills, scenarios, books, periodicals, costumes, props, and cherished goods of film professionals). ...
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KoreanScreen.comKoreanScreen.com is an English-language site of reviews and features for South Korean films. Every week they post new release film reviews alongside revisiting classics from the past. ...
Introduction to Korean cinema
North Korea
Early film screenings took place in pre-partition Korea in the late 1890s, and the first public exhibition is dated to 1903. Korea did not develop a film industry of its own until around the mid 1910s; and the first sound film appeared in 1935, when the cinemagoing public was estimated to comprise about a third of the population. At this time, Korean cinema screens were dominated by imports from the West and from Japan (Korea was under Japanese colonial rule between 1910 and 1945). The colonial government had established a motion picture section in 1920, and over 200 propaganda films were made between that date and 1945. However, only about 160 feature films were made in Korea during the entire colonial period: most of these were shinpa, or contemporary dramas and melodramas. Cinema in Korea has been subject to government censorship from the beginning: in colonial times, censorship of scripts and films was undertaken by the police, and regulation of domestically-made films was especially strict. Despite censorship, however, a few nationalistic films were made, and between the 1920s and 1960s, the KAPF (Korean Art Proletarian Federation) produced a number of ‘tendency’, or socialist-realist, films, though those made before 1945 were rarely screened in public. ...
Kuhn, A., & Westwell, G. (2020). North Korea, film in. In A Dictionary of Film Studies. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 22 Aug. 2022
South Korea
While there is some disagreement about the date of the earliest film screening in pre-partition Korea, it appears to have taken place between 1897 and 1899, with the first public exhibition dated to 1903. Korea did not develop a film industry of its own until around the mid 1910s, and accounts of Korean silent cinema mention the films Eurijok Kutu/Righteous Revenge (Kim To-san, 1919) and Weolha-eui maengse/Plighted Love (Yun Paeng-nam, 1923). Korea’s first sound film, a Japanese-financed historical drama called Chun-hyang Jeon/The Story of Chunhyang (Lee Myeong-wu), appeared in 1935, when the cinemagoing public was estimated to comprise about a third of the population and Korean cinema screens were dominated by imports from the West and Japan. Korea was under Japanese colonial rule between 1910 and 1945, and the colonial government had established a motion picture section in 1920: over 200 propaganda films were made between that date and 1945. However, only about 160 feature films were made in Korea during the colonial period: most of these were shinpa, or contemporary dramas and melodramas (for example Sangonghu/Jade Tears (Lee Ku-yeong, 1925)). Cinema in Korea has been subject to government censorship from the beginning: in colonial times, censorship of scripts and films was undertaken by the police, with regulation of domestically-made films especially strict: in 1942 all such films were banned. Despite the censorship, a few nationalistic films were made, including Na Un-gyu’s Arirang (1924); and between the 1920s and 1960s, the KAPF (Korean Art Proletarian Federation) produced a number of ‘tendency’, or socialist-realist, films, though those made before 1945 (like Chahachon/The Underground Village (1931)) were rarely screened in public (see socialist realism). ...
Kuhn, A., & Westwell, G. (2020). South Korea, film in. In A Dictionary of Film Studies. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 22 Aug. 2022
Searching the online catalog
There may be several subject headings you can use to find resources in the online catalog. The most direct subject heading is listed below. The call number range is also included. Our collection for Korean film is a mixture of English, Korean and other languages. While the majority of resources focus on South Korea, our collections do include works on North Korean film. The following searches will lead you to resources for both Koreas.
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motion pictures koreaCall number range PN 1993.5 .K6 on Baker Level 4.
Introductory reading(s)
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Hanʼguk yŏnghwa 100-yŏn by
Call Number: Baker-Berry Korea Ref. PN 1993.5 .K6 H64 2003ISBN: 9788970126210 -
The history of Korean cinema byCall Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .K6 Y5313 1998ISBN: 9788988095126
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Korean cinema: from origins to renaissance
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Korean film directors byCall Number: Check catalog for exact call numberThis is a book series featuring Korean directors.
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North Korean cinema: a history
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Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .K63 S35 2012ISBN: 9780786465262Like many ideological dictatorships of the twentieth century, North Korea has always considered cinema an indispensible propaganda tool. No other medium penetrated the whole of the population so thoroughly, and no other medium remained so strictly and exclusively under state control. Through movies, the two successive leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il propagandized their policies and sought to rally the masses behind them, with great success. This volume chronicles the history of North Korean cinema from its beginnings to today, examining the obstacles the film industry faced as well as the many social problems the films themselves reveal. ... -
Sŏ Chŏng-nam ŭi Pukhan yŏnghwa tʻamsa byCall Number: Baker-Berry Korea PN 1993.5 .K63 S63 2002ISBN: 9788984981867
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The South Korean film industry
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780472076925As shown by the success of Squid Game and Parasite, South Korea's film industry is producing films and original series for streaming services, film studios, and television stations worldwide. South Korea is now arguably considered one of the few countries outside the United States to have captivated the world's hearts and minds through pop music, TV dramas, and film. Similarly, the exponential growth in the South Korean film industry has been mirrored by a growing body of industry and film policy forums and academic conferences in both the East and the West. The South Korean Film Industry is the first detailed scholarly overview of the South Korean film industry. ... -
Virtual hallyu: Korean cinema of the global era
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780822351016In the late 1990s, South Korean film and other cultural products, broadly known as hallyu (Korean wave), gained unprecedented international popularity. Korean films earned an all-time high of $60.3 million in Japan in 2005, and they outperformed their Hollywood competitors at Korean box offices. In Virtual Hallyu, Kyung Hyun Kim reflects on the precariousness of Korean cinema's success over the past decade. Arguing that state film policies and socioeconomic factors cannot fully explain cinema's true potentiality, Kim draws on Deleuze's concept of the virtual--according to which past and present and truth and falsehood coexist--to analyze the temporal anxieties and cinematic ironies embedded in screen figures. Kim maintains that the full significance of hallyu can only be understood by exposing the implicit and explicit ideologies of protonationalism and capitalism that, along with Korea's ambiguous post-democratization and neoliberalism, are etched against the celluloid surfaces.
Selected book title(s)
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1950-yŏndae, Hanʼguk yŏnghwa wa munhwa tamnon = Korean cinema and the cultural discourse in the 1950s byCall Number: Baker-Berry Korea PN 1993.5 .K6 O18 2007ISBN: 9788956262512
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The cinema of Japan & Korea
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Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .J3 C56 2004ISBN: 9781904764120The Cinema of Japan and Korea is the fourth volume in the new 24 Frames series of studies of national and regional cinema, and focuses on the continuing vibrancy of Japanese and Korean film. The 24 concise and informative essays each approach an individual film or documentary, together offering a unique introduction to the cinematic output of the two countries. With a range that spans from silent cinema to the present day, from films that have achieved classic status to underground masterpieces, the book provides an insight into the breadth of the Japanese and Korean cinematic landscapes. ... -
Literature and film in Cold War South Korea: freedom's frontier
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Call Number: Baker-Berry PL 957.5 .P64 H64 2012ISBN: 9780231157483Korean writers and filmmakers crossed literary and visual cultures in multilayered ways under Japanese colonial rule (1910-1945). Taking advantage of new modes and media that emerged in the early twentieth century, these artists sought subtle strategies for representing the realities of colonialism and global modernity. -
New Korean cinema
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Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .K6 N48 2005ISBN: 9780814740309Korean film has been heralded as the "newest tiger" of Asian cinema. In the past year, South Korea became one of the only countries in the world in which local films outsold Hollywood films, and Korean director Park Chan-wook was awarded the Grand Prix at Cannes. New Korean Cinema provides a comprehensive overview of the production, circulation, and reception of this vibrant cinema, which has begun to flourish again in the past decade, following the lifting of repressive government policies. In addition to providing a cultural, historical, and social context for understanding this burgeoning cinema, the book considers the political economy of South Korea's film industry, strategies of domestic and international distribution and marketing, and the consumption of Korean films throughout the world. ... -
Seoul searching: culture and identity in contemporary Korean cinema
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Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .K6 S45 2007ISBN: 9780791472262Korean cinema as industry, art form, and cultural product. -
The South Korean film renaissance: local hitmakers, global provocateurs
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780819569400How a homegrown cinema took on Hollywood and dazzled Cannes. For the past decade, the Korean film industry has enjoyed a renaissance. With innovative storytelling and visceral effects, Korean films not only have been commercially viable in the domestic and regional markets but also have appealed to cinephiles everywhere on the international festival circuit. This book provides both an industrial and an aesthetic account of how the Korean film industry managed to turn an economic crisis--triggered in part by globalizing processes in the world film industry--into a fiscal and cultural boom. ... -
Understanding Korean film: a cross-cultural perspective
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781003089896Film viewing presents a unique situation in which the film viewer is unwittingly placed in the role of a multimodal translator, finding themselves entirely responsible for interpreting multifaceted meanings at the mercy of their own semiotic repertoire. Yet, researchers have made little attempt, as they have for literary texts, to explain the gap in translation when it comes to multimodality. It is no wonder then that, in an era of informed consumerism, film viewers have been trying to develop their own toolboxes for the tasks that they are faced with when viewing foreign language films by sharing information online. This is particularly the case with South Korean film, which has drawn the interest of foreign viewers who want to understand these untranslatable meanings and even go as far as learning the Korean language to do so. Understanding Korean Film: A Cross-Cultural Perspective breaks this long-awaited ground by explaining the meaning potential of a selection of common Korean verbal and non-verbal expressions in a range of contexts in South Korean film that are often untranslatable for English-speaking Western viewers. ...
Finding scholarly journal articles for Korean cinema
Articles and other writings about Korean language film can be found in many publications. Our collection includes short runs of journals which looks exclusively at Korean language film. You can use Film & Television Literature Index to find articles or use the search box at the top of the page.
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Film & television literature index
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Screen studies collection
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Call Number: Electronic resourceA comprehensive survey of current publications related to film scholarship alongside detailed filmographies. This collection includes the FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database and the detailed and complementary filmographies created by the American Film Institute (AFI) and the British Film Institute. -
The web of science citation databases
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Call Number: Electronic resourceThe online version of 3 separate ISI indexes: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index and, Social Sciences Citation Index.
Selected film titles
Find more Korean film titles in the library's online catalog.
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Grandmother's flower
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Call Number: Streaming videoWhen director Mun accidentally discovered the diaries of his late granduncle, who was mentally ill, he unexpectedly learned about his family's secret history. The small mountain village in South Jeolla Province, where Mun's family lived, was nursing the wounds from conflicts of class, ideology as well as from the displacement of family members in South and North Korea, and even in Japan. It turned out that the history of his family contained all the tragedies of modern Korean history, a history he had only known through textbooks. This interesting documentary investigates a complex history linking the repercussions of Japanese colonialism and the Korean War to the director's family memories. -
Joong-cheon = The restless
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Call Number: Jones Media DVD #7862ISBN: 9781594451225In 924 AD, the land is ruled by the corrupt, and demons roam freely. One man born with the power to see spirits joins the demon-hunting squad, until he drifts between the land of the living and the land of the dead, where all prepare for reincarnation. -
Na ŭi kyŏrhon wŏnjŏnggi = Wedding campaign
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Call Number: Jones Media DVD #8246 discs 1 - 2Two men in their late thirties living in rural Korea are having trouble finding women to marry. Out of desperation, they sign up for a scheme which takes them to Uzbekistan in order to set them up with brides. -
O! sujŏng = Virgin stripped bare by her bachelors
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Call Number: Jones Media DVD #7771When filmmaker Youngsoo introduces his wealthy gallery owner friend Jaehoon to another friend, the female television writer Soojung, the table is set for a complicated love triangle—a situation that repeatedly fascinates Hong, which at times garners him comparisons to Éric Rohmer. Documenting the resulting emotional tug-of-war with his usual light touch and acuity, Hong’s third film launched Lee Eunju as a star in South Korea and is perhaps the finest cinematic memorial to the departed actress. -
Tasŏt kae ŭi sisŏn = If you were me 2 byCall Number: Jones Media DVD #7505The first short film follows the daily life of a young girl with Downs Syndrome. The 2nd film looks at the problems that emerge from the masculinity in Korean culture. The 3rd film follows the daily life of a North Korean girl who escapes to South Korea. The 4th film is about the interrogation of a student and the fate of contract workers in South Korea. The last film is a documentary about the iillegal immigration of other Asians into Korea.
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Tugŭn tugŭn nae insaeng = My brilliant life
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Call Number: Jones Media DVD #18573Dae-su, once a promising taekwondo athlete with 'incompetent swing kick' and Mira, who dreamt of becoming an idol, unexpectedly became teenage parents at the age of 17. Now they're 33 and have a 16-year old son Ahreum. ... -
War of the arrows
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Call Number: Jones Media DVD #14900ISBN: 9786314574239In 1636 during the second Manchu invasion of Korea, Nam-Yi vows to save his sister and her groom and defeat the Manchurians with his single bow when they kidnap them on their wedding day.
Keeping up with the journal literature
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