South Korean Golden Age Melodrama: Gender, Genre, and National Cinema

Book Overview

Immediately following the Korean War, South Korea's film industry flourished with vibrant local production of high-quality films. Characterized by its stunning melodramas, this "Golden Age" of South Korean cinema produced a body of work as historically, aesthetically, and politically significant as that of other well-known national film movements such as Italian Neorealism, French New Wave, and New German Cinema. Conditions that fostered South...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814332536
• ISBN13: 9780814332535
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"