Kim Ki-duk

Name: Kim Ki-duk
Brand: University of Illinois Press
SKU: 9780252078415
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ISBN: 9780252078415

by Hye Seung Chung

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Contemporary Film Directors

ISBN-10 0252078411

ISBN-13 9780252078415

Publisher University of Illinois Press

Imprint University of Illinois Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jan 27th, 2012

Print length 176 Pages

Weight 252 grams

Dimensions 14.10 x 20.80 x 1.10 cms

Product Classification: Film theory & criticism Individual film directors, film-makers Film history, theory or criticism Individual film directors, film-makers

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A searing study of a controversial international auteur

This study investigates the controversial motion pictures written and directed by the independent filmmaker Kim Ki-duk, one of the most acclaimed Korean auteurs in the English-speaking world. Propelled by underdog protagonists who can only communicate through shared corporeal pain and extreme violence, Kim''s graphic films have been classified by Western audiences as belonging to sensationalist East Asian "extreme" cinema, and Kim has been labeled a "psychopath" and "misogynist" in South Korea.

Drawing upon both Korean-language and English-language sources, Hye Seung Chung challenges these misunderstandings, recuperating Kim''s oeuvre as a therapeutic, yet brutal cinema of Nietzschean ressentiment (political anger and resentment deriving from subordination and oppression). Chung argues that the power of Kim''s cinema lies precisely in its ability to capture, channel, and convey the raw emotions of protagonists who live on the bottom rungs of Korean society. She provides historical and postcolonial readings of victimization and violence in Kim''s cinema, which tackles such socially relevant topics as national division in Wild Animals and The Coast Guard and U.S. military occupation in Address Unknown. She also explores the religious and spiritual themes in Kim''s most recent works, which suggest possibilities of reconciliation and transcendence.

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