Directory of World Cinema: South Korea Joseph H. Hancock II

Directory of World Cinema: South Korea Joseph H. Hancock IIConcurrent with the growing body of scholarship on South Korean cinema, Directory of World Cinema: South Korea offers an accessible overview of South Korea's film industry. In addition to the action and horror films usually considered in studies of South Korean cinema, this volume also examines genres that have traditionally lacked critical attention, including romantic comedies and gay and lesbian features. Essays by leading film scholars explore a

Focuses on how artistic production is adapting and offers a series of artistic

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comedies such as When Harry Met Sally and Jerry Maguire and CGI blockbusters like The Lord of the Rings and The Dark Knight

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modernist poet Claude McKay troubles the traditional symbol of springtime to accommodate the hardships of an increasingly industrialized world

Opening with a discussion between Alain Badiou and Elie During

Maia Dolphin-Krute argues that the illusive sick body is often made invisible – a ghost – because it does not always fit society's definition of disability

Media and Communication

and explores the complex and interactive relationship between news media and Australian Indigenous affairs

this volume presents digital radio broadcasting in both a European and global context

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Since history is based on documentation