Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-194) and index
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Korean cinema : philosophical foundations and theoretical frameworks -- Oppression, liberation, censorship, and depression : history and major trends of Korean cinema from the 1910s to the 1970s -- Korean national cinema in the 1980s : enlightenment, political struggle, social realism, and defeatism -- Auteur criticism : the case of Sunwoo Jang's Taste of heaven -- Discourses of modernity and postmodernity in contemporary Korean cinema -- Hollywood imagination, foreign films, and Korean identity : resistance, assimilation, and articulation -- Contemporary Korean cinema : a boom or a renaissance?