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: 9781978807907
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 12/13/2019
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 200
File size: 3 MB

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
Chapter 1. The Emergence of Contemporary Korean Cinema
Chapter 2. State Film Policy and the Politicization of Censorship
Chapter 3. Screen Quotas in the Era of the U.S.-Korea FTA
Chapter 4. Conglomeration, Screen Oligopolu, and Cultural Diversity
Chapter 5. Public Film Funding and Transnational Production
Chapter 6. Coproduction and Transnationalization of Korean Cinema
Chapter 7. Transnationalization of Film Genres
Chapter 8. Transmedia Storytelling of Webtoons in Films in the Digital Era
Chapter 9. Conclusion: Korean Cinema's Future in Digital Technologies
Notes
References
Index
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