Table of Contents

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: South Korean Cinema’s Transnational Trajectories
 Part I   From Classical Hollywood to the Korean Golden Age: Cinephilia, Modernization, and Postcolonial Genre Flows
 1   Toward a Strategic Korean Cinephilia: A Transnational Détournement of Hollywood Melodrama2   The Mamas and the Papas: Cross-Cultural Remakes, Literary Adaptations, and Cinematic “Parent” Texts3   The Nervous Laughter of Vanishing Fathers: Modernization Comedies of the 1960s4   Once upon a Time in Manchuria: Classic and Contemporary Korean Westerns
 Part II   From Cinematic Seoul to Global Hollywood: Cosmopolitanism, Empire, and Transnational Genre Flows
 5   Reinventing the Historical Drama, De-Westernizing a French Classic: Genre, Gender, and the Transnational Imaginary in Untold Scandal6   From Gojira to Goemul: “Host” Cities and “Post” Histories in East Asian Monster Movies7   Extraordinarily Rendered: Oldboy, Transmedia Adaptation, and the US War on Terror8   A Thirst for Diversity: Trends in Korean “Multicultural Films,” from Bandhobi to Where is Ronny?
 Conclusion: Into “Spreadable” Spaces: Netflix, YouTube, and the Question of Cultural TranslatabilityNotesIndex 

About the Author

HYE SEUNG CHUNG is an associate professor of film and media studies in the department of communication studies at Colorado State University. She is the author of Hollywood Asian: Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-Ethnic Performance and Kim Ki-duk. DAVID SCOTT DIFFRIENT is the William E. Morgan Endowed Chair of Liberal Arts and associate professor of film and media studies in the department of communication studies at Colorado State University. He is the author of Omnibus Films: Theorizing Transauthorial Cinema. 

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"Deftly weaves together eclectic, interdisciplinary references, from transnational literary studies to political economy, translation and adaptation studies, film genre studies, and inter-Asian Pacific Rim cultural studies."
*The Journal of Asian Studies*

"Brimming with insight and detail, this is the go-to book for South Korean genre cinema, a remarkable achievement of scholarship, richly detailed with frame grabs and production stills … Highly recommended."
*CHOICE*

"Movie Migrations offers insightful readings of the deep connections between Korean and foreign films. A model of transnational scholarship, it will revitalize genre studies."
*author of Cold War Orientalism*

"A magnificent service to the scholarly analysis of South Korean cinema. This book is insightful, eloquent, and fully engaged. It has been researched and written with tremendous rigour and commitment."
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