Introduction: South Korean cinema's transnational trajectories
Part. I. From classical Hollywood to the Korean golden age: cinephilia, modernization, and postcolonial genre flows. 1. Toward a strategic Korean cinephilia: a transnational détournement of Hollywood melodrama
2. The mamas and the papas: cross-cultural remakes, literary adaptations, and cinematic "parent" texts
3. The nervous laughter of vanishing fathers: modernization comedies of the 1960s
4. Once upon a time in Manchuria: classic and contemporary Korean westerns
Pt. II. From cinematic Seoul to global Hollywood: cosmopolitanism, empire, and transnational genre flows. 5. Reinventing the historical drama, de-westernizing a French classic: genre, gender, and the transnational imaginary in untold scandal
6. From Gojira to Goemul: "host" cities and "post" histories in East Asian monster movies
7. Extraordinarily rendered: oldboy, transmedia adaptation, and the US war on terror
8. A thirst for diversity: trends in Korean "multicultural films", from Bandhobi to Where is Ronny?
Conclusion: into "spreadable" spaces: Netflix, YouTube, and the question of cultural translatability.
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Movie migrations : transnational genre flows and South Korean cinema by Hye Seung Chung. ISBN 9780813569970. Published by Rutgers University Press in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
