Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Industry Trends and Popular Genres
7. Korean Cinema after Liberation 15
8. Christmas in August and Korean Melodrama 37
9. Storming the Big Screen 55
10. Timeless, Bottomless Bad Movies 73
11. Directing New Korean Cinema
12. Scream and Scream Again 99
13. Forgetting to Remember, Remembering to Forget 115
14. Reflexivity and Identity Crisis in Park Chul-soo’s Farewell, My Darling 141
15. Nowhere to Hide 157
16. Closing The Circle 175
17. Narratives of the National
18. Waiting to Exhale 191
19. Crossing the Border to the “Other” Side 219
20. Race, Gender, and Postcolonial Identity in Kim Ki-duk’s Address Unknown 243
21. Transgressing Boundaries 265
22. Taking the Plunge 283
23. Contributors 299
24. Index 303