Author Archive for: ‘Emily Ashman’
Pop Goes Korea: Behind the Revolution in Movies, Music, and Internet Culture
Mark James Russell, Pop Goes Korea: Behind the Revolution in Movies, Music, and Internet Culture. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press, 2008 ISBN: 978 1 933330 68 6 US$19.95 (pb) 224pp (Review copy supplied by Stone Bridge Press) Pop Goes Korea opens pondering what factors have made South Korea uniquely successful in terms of popular culture in recent decades, and abruptly closes concluding …
Read MoreNew Korean Cinema: Breaking the Waves, Darcy Paquet
(Short Cuts)London: Wallflower Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-1-906660-25-3 UK£12.99 (pb) 135pp (Review copy supplied by Wallflower Press) New Korean Cinema: Breaking the Waves reads as a series of vignettes through which the reader glimpses the turmoil of the last three decades of South Korean history. The glimpses are in fact iconic scenes from the films of New Korean Cinema that the …
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