The Intimate Violence of South Korean and Japanese Cinema

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the origins and impact of violent South Korean and Japanese cinema from the late 1990s onward, exploring how South Korean filmmakers were inspired by their Japanese counterparts and reflecting shared economic struggles of the 1990s and early 2000s.

Through the concept of "intimate violence," this book provides a critical account of violence as a means of mediating social relations and articulating the transformations of neoliberal modernity. It offe...