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Parleying Culture Against Trade: Hollywood’S Affairs With Korea’S Screen Quotas, Brian M. Yecies
Parleying Culture Against Trade: Hollywood’S Affairs With Korea’S Screen Quotas, Brian M. Yecies
Dr Brian Yecies
The rising Korean cinema has inspired a flurry of new understandings of the nation’s media and cultural policies. However, there remains a gap in the historical factors leading to this phenomenon, regarding particularly Hollywood’s long-term negotiations with import and screen quotas. This study charts Hollywood’s export activities in Korea and analyzes differences between the US economic approach to film as ‘goods’ and Korean view of films as ‘cultural expressions’. The Korean government’s perseverance to safeguard film as cultural heritage and its ability to stand-up against relentless trade pressures from the US have led to the contemporary Korean cinema’s tangible success. …
Double Take On Vengeance: Journey Through The Syncopic Editing Style Of Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance, Brian M. Yecies, D. Chambers
Double Take On Vengeance: Journey Through The Syncopic Editing Style Of Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance, Brian M. Yecies, D. Chambers
Dr Brian Yecies
For foreigners who did not grow up speaking the Korean language, filmic images in contemporary Korean cinema texts speak louder than words. Visiting the “land of morning calm” in person and floating on the surface of Korean society has inspired us to gain a deeper understanding of these images and their puzzling place in Korean culture. Truly experiencing the Korean cinema revolves around heart-felt journeys into solving some of these puzzles. We have begun another sojourn with this reading of the editing style in Park Chan-wook’s Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002).
Lost Memories Of Korean Cinema: Film Policies During Japanese Colonial Rule, 1919-1937, Brian M. Yecies, Ae-Gyung Shim
Lost Memories Of Korean Cinema: Film Policies During Japanese Colonial Rule, 1919-1937, Brian M. Yecies, Ae-Gyung Shim
Dr Brian Yecies
This article analyzes the development and enforcement of film policy and censorship regulations in colonial Korea and draws attention to their impact on the production and exhibition market of Korean cinema. The period between 1919 and 1937 is chosen for this study because it marks the release of the first Korean kino-drama film project, includes Korea’s boom of silent filmmaking and the expansion of Hollywood and Japanese distribution exchanges in Seoul, and leads to the eventual tightening of Japanese censorship by state police. This period is generally known as the ascent of Japan’s imperialistic policies. Given Japan’s occupation of Korea …