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Author / Creator:	Chung, Hye Seung, 1971-
Imprint:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2012.
Description:	x, 161 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Contemporary film directors Contemporary film directors.
Subject:	Kim, Ki-dŏk, -- 1960- -- Criticism and interpretation. Kim, Ki-dŏk, -- 1960- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8683554

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ISBN:	9780252078415 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0252078411 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780252036699 (cloth : alk. paper) 0252036697 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes filmography.
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).

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Beyond "Extreme": The Cinema of Ressentiment
Kim Ki-duk: Towards a More Perfect Imperfection
An Auteur Is Bom: Fishhooks, Critical Debates, and Transnational Canons
On Suffering and Sufferance: Postcolonial Pain and the "Purloined Letter" in Address Unknown
Reconciling the Paradox of Silence and Apologia: Bad Guy, The Isle, and 3-Iron
Neofeminist Revisions: Female Bodies and Semiotic Chora in Birdcage Inn and Samaritan Girl
The Bodhisattva Inner-Eye: Inwardly Drawn Transcendence in Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ... and Spring
Interview with Kim Ki-Duk: From Crocodile to Address Unknown, By Kim So-Hee
Filmography
Bibliography
Index

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