Description: Korean cinema as industry, art form, and cultural product.
Brief description: Frances Gateward is Professor of Film Studies at Ursinus College. She is the editor of Zhang Yimou: Interviews and coeditor (with Murray Pomerance) of Where the Boys Are: Cinemas of Masculinity and Youth.
Review Quotes:
"This book contributes significantly to the growing body of literature on contemporary Korean cinema." -- Korean Studies
"...offers a succinct, well-written overview of the ways in which cultural policies in shifting government regimes have influenced the management of film as a cultural commodity. A theoretically informed examination of representations of modernization." -- CHOICE
"Students and scholars are hungry for good critical material on South Korean films, and this book is a welcome contribution to this quickly growing area in film studies." -- Corey K. Creekmur, coeditor of Cinema, Law, and the State in Asia