Description
The South Korean Film Industry is the first detailed scholarly overview of the South Korean film industry. The thirteen chapters discuss topics from short films to popular television series that have engaged global audiences. Contributors explore the major changes in South Korean film making, marketing, and in the international growth and popularity of South Korean films. By bringing together a wide range of academic specialists on the South Korean film industry, The South Korean Film Industry situates the current scholarship on South Korean cinema within the ongoing theoretical debates in contemporary global film studies. This volume offers invigorating discussions of the South Korean film industry, as well as its economic, political, and artistic impact on global, local, and regional film industries and cultures.
About the Author
Sangjoon Lee is Associate Professor in the School of Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong.
Dal Yong Jin is Distinguished Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University and Global Professor in the School of Media & Communication at Korea University.
Junhyoung Cho is Senior Researcher of the Korean Film Archive.
Book Information
ISBN 9780472076925
Author Junhyung Cho
Format Hardback
Page Count 312
Imprint The University of Michigan Press
Publisher The University of Michigan Press