Transnational Korean Cinema: Cultural Politics, Film Genres, and Digital Technologies
In Transnational Korean Cinema author Dal Yong Jin explores the interactions of local and global politics, economics, and culture to contextualize the development of Korean cinema and its current place in an era of neoliberal globalization and convergent digital technologies.

The book emphasizes the economic and industrial aspects of the story, looking at questions on the interaction of politics and economics, including censorship and public funding, and provides a better view of the big picture by laying bare the relationship between film industries, the global market, and government. Jin also sheds light on the operations and globalization strategies of Korean film industries alongside changing cultural policies in tandem with Hollywood’s continuing influences in order to comprehend the power relations within cultural politics, nationally and globally. This is the first book to offer a full overview of the nascent development of Korean cinema.
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Transnational Korean Cinema: Cultural Politics, Film Genres, and Digital Technologies
In Transnational Korean Cinema author Dal Yong Jin explores the interactions of local and global politics, economics, and culture to contextualize the development of Korean cinema and its current place in an era of neoliberal globalization and convergent digital technologies.

The book emphasizes the economic and industrial aspects of the story, looking at questions on the interaction of politics and economics, including censorship and public funding, and provides a better view of the big picture by laying bare the relationship between film industries, the global market, and government. Jin also sheds light on the operations and globalization strategies of Korean film industries alongside changing cultural policies in tandem with Hollywood’s continuing influences in order to comprehend the power relations within cultural politics, nationally and globally. This is the first book to offer a full overview of the nascent development of Korean cinema.
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Transnational Korean Cinema: Cultural Politics, Film Genres, and Digital Technologies

Transnational Korean Cinema: Cultural Politics, Film Genres, and Digital Technologies

by Dal Yong Jin
Transnational Korean Cinema: Cultural Politics, Film Genres, and Digital Technologies

Transnational Korean Cinema: Cultural Politics, Film Genres, and Digital Technologies

by Dal Yong Jin

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In Transnational Korean Cinema author Dal Yong Jin explores the interactions of local and global politics, economics, and culture to contextualize the development of Korean cinema and its current place in an era of neoliberal globalization and convergent digital technologies.

The book emphasizes the economic and industrial aspects of the story, looking at questions on the interaction of politics and economics, including censorship and public funding, and provides a better view of the big picture by laying bare the relationship between film industries, the global market, and government. Jin also sheds light on the operations and globalization strategies of Korean film industries alongside changing cultural policies in tandem with Hollywood’s continuing influences in order to comprehend the power relations within cultural politics, nationally and globally. This is the first book to offer a full overview of the nascent development of Korean cinema.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781978807884
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 12/13/2019
Edition description: None
Pages: 206
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

DAL YONG JIN is a professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. Jin has published more than 15 books, including Korea’s Online Gaming Empire and Smartland Korea: mobile communication, culture and society.
 

Table of Contents

Preface vii

1 The Emergence of Contemporary Korean Cinema 1

2 State Film Policy and the Politicization of Censorship 15

3 Screen Quotas in the Era of the U.S.-Korea FTA 35

4 Conglomeration, Screen Oligopoly, and Cultural Diversity 53

5 Public Film Funding and Transnational Production 72

6 Coproduction and Transnationalization of Korean Cinema 89

7 Transnationalization of Film Genres 106

8 Transmedia Storytelling of Webtoons in Films in the Digital Era 129

9 Conclusion: Korean Cinema's Future in Digital Technologies 146

Notes 159

References 165

Index 185

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