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Kim Ki-duk

(book in English)

by Hye Seung Chung

Type
Studies
Subject
DirectorKim Ki-duk
Keywords
Kim Ki-Duk
Publishing Date
2012
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Collection
Contemporary Film Directors
Language
English
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Physical desc.
Paperback • 161 pages • 27 €
5 ¼ x 8 ¼ inches (13.5 x 21 cm)
Also available as an eBook.
ISBN
978-0-252-07841-5
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Book Presentation:
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 œuvre 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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