Tourist Distractions: Traveling and Feeling in Transnational Hallyu Cinema

by Youngmin Choe

Book Overview

In Tourist Distractions Youngmin Choe uses hallyu (Korean-wave) cinema as a lens to examine the relationships among tourism and travel, economics, politics, and history in contemporary East Asia. Focusing on films born of transnational collaboration and its networks, Choe shows how the integration of the tourist imaginary into hallyu cinema points to the region's evolving transnational politics and the ways Korea negotiates its colonial and Cold War...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822361302
• ISBN13: 9780822361305
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"