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Kim Ki-duk (Paperback)
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Kim Ki-duk (Paperback)
Series: Contemporary Film Directors
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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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