Im Kwon-Taek: The Making of a Korean National Cinema

By: Kyung Hyun Kim

Book Overview

Im Kwon-Taek: The Making of a Korean National Cinema is a collection of essays written about Im Kwon-Taek, better known as the father of New Korean Cinema, that takes a critical look at the situations of filmmakers in South Korea.

Korean cinema was virtually unavailable to the West during the Japanese colonial period (1910-1945), and no film made before 1943 has been recovered even though Korea had an active film-making industry...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814328695
• ISBN13: 9780814328699
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"