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Kim Ki-duk / Hye Seung Chung.
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TextSeries: Contemporary film directorsPublication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2012. Description: 161 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN: 9780252036699 (cloth : alk. paper)DDC classification: 791.430233092 Summary: This study investigates the controversial motion pictures written and directed by the independent filmmaker Kim Ki-duk, one of the most acclaimed Korean auteurs in the English-speaking world. Propelled by underdog protagonists who can only communicate through shared corporeal pain and extreme violence, Kim's graphic films have been classified by Western audiences as belonging to sensationalist East Asian "extreme" cinema, and Kim has been labelled a "psychopath" and "misogynist" in South Korea. Drawing upon both Korean-language and English-language sources, Hye Seung Chung challenges these misunderstandings, recuperating Kim's oeuvre as a therapeutic, yet brutal cinema of Nietzschean ressentiment (political anger and resentment deriving from subordination and oppression).
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| 791.4302 G994l Lee Man-hee / | 791.4302 S2251r Rookie directors II / | 791.4302 Y221l Lee Doo-yong / | 791.430233092 C55942k Kim Ki-duk / | 791.430233092 H997s Shin Sang-ok / | 791.430233092 J336l Lee Jang-ho / | 791.430233092 K639c Cold War cosmopolitanism : period style in 1950s Korean cinema / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This study investigates the controversial motion pictures written and directed by the independent filmmaker Kim Ki-duk, one of the most acclaimed Korean auteurs in the English-speaking world. Propelled by underdog protagonists who can only communicate through shared corporeal pain and extreme violence, Kim's graphic films have been classified by Western audiences as belonging to sensationalist East Asian "extreme" cinema, and Kim has been labelled a "psychopath" and "misogynist" in South Korea. Drawing upon both Korean-language and English-language sources, Hye Seung Chung challenges these misunderstandings, recuperating Kim's oeuvre as a therapeutic, yet brutal cinema of Nietzschean ressentiment (political anger and resentment deriving from subordination and oppression).