Two Lenses on the Korean Ethos: Key Cultural Concepts and Their Appearance in Cinema

ISBN-13: 9780786496822 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 288 str.

Keumsil Kim Yoon; Bruce Williams

Opis

A war-torn country only 60 years ago, South Korea has since achieved prodigious growth and global integration. This book provides a roadmap of the Korean ethos, detailing its representation in key cultural words and in film. Part I explores defining concepts like han (regret), jeong (feeling), deok (cultivated virtue), and Korean cinema. Part II analyses film narratives based on these concepts via close readings of thirteen films.