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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Korean Cinema"”.
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Family Pictures: Representations of the Family in Contemporary Korean Cinema
… has always been a central narrative theme in cinema. Korean cinema has been no exception, where the family has proved to be a popular subject since its earliest days. Yet Western scholarship on Korean cinema has given little attention to this dominant theme, preferring to concentrate on the …
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Memories of Rapid Transformation: Retrospection and Nostalgia in Contemporary South Korean Cinema
… AND NOSTALGIA IN CONTEMPORARY SOUTH KOREAN CINEMA MAJOR PROFESSOR: Deborah Tudor, Ph.D. The recent tendency of returning to history in Korean cinema corresponds with the conjuncture of democratization and globalization from 1992, which is an antithesis of the former conjuncture: …
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Whoring the mermaid: the study of South Korean hostess film (1974-1982)
This dissertation focuses on cinematic representations of prostitute women in South Korean Hostess (ho-sŭ-t'e-sŭ’: a euphemism for prostitutes or bar girls in the Korean context of the 1970s and 1980s) films. This body of films is not only characterized for the exploitive employment of female …