A Study of Big Data Utilization in the South Korean Film Industry

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Sangwon Ro
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
The South ◽  
Data Utilization ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Korean Film

scholarly journals The South Korean film industry and the Chinese film market

Screen ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 332-341
Author(s):  
Sangjoon Lee
Keyword(s):  
Film Industry ◽  
The South ◽  
Chinese Film ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Korean Film ◽  
Film Market

Contemporary Re-Interpretations of the Colonial Past Through the Biopics of Two Koreans: Park Kyŏng-Wŏn and Kim Sin-Rak

2021 ◽  
pp. 43-65
Author(s):  
Álvaro Trigo Maldonado
Keyword(s):  
Film Industry ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
The South ◽  
South Korean ◽  
The Past ◽  
Freedom Fighters ◽  
Korean Film

In the past few years, the South Korean film industry has released a growing number of Korean movies set in the colonial period. This essay focuses on how these films deal with the painful memory of occupation. More specifically, the analysis will be centered on two biopics with narratives that differ from what could be argued to be the mainstream portrayals of the colonial period, which tend to depict the struggle of Korean freedom-fighters under Japanese rule. Moreover, this essay reflects on the meaning of reinterpreting the past through cinema.

scholarly journals The Role of Hegemonic Masculinity and Hollywood in the New Korea

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Howson ◽  
Brian Yecies
Keyword(s):  
Film Industry ◽  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
Antonio Gramsci ◽  
Korean Society ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Hollywood Films ◽  
Post War ◽  
Korean Film ◽  
The Relationship

We argue that during the 1940s Hollywood films had an important role to play in the creation of a postwar South Korean society based on the new global U.S. hegemony. The connections between political and economic change in South Korea and socio-cultural factors have hitherto scarcely been explored and, in this context, we argue that one of the key socio-cultural mechanisms that supported and even drove social change in the immediate post-war period was the Korean film industry and its re-presentation of masculinity. The groundbreaking work of Antonio Gramsci on hegemony is drawn on – in particular, his understanding of the relationship between “commonsense” and “good sense” – as well as Raewyn Connell’s concept of hegemonic masculinity. The character of Rick in the 1941 Hollywood classic Casablanca is used to illustrate the kind of hegemonic masculinity favoured by the U.S. Occupation authorities in moulding cultural and political attitudes in the new Korea.

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