Peirse and Martin's edited volume defines the national genre of Korean Horror from gothic horror to monster movie.
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Korean Horror Cinema
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Film & VideoTable of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Contributors
- Introduction
- PART I Classic Korean Horror
- 1 Family, death and the wonhon in four films of the 1960s
- 2 Creepy liver-eating fox ladies: The Thousand Year Old Fox and Koreaās Gumiho
- 3 War-horror and anti-Communism: from Piagol to Rainy Days
- 4 Motherās Grudge and Womanās Wail: the monster-mother and Korean horror film
- PART II Contemporary āDomesticā Horror
- 5 Heritage of horrors: reclaiming the female ghost in Shadows in the Palace
- 6 Acacia and adoption anxiety in Korean horror cinema
- 7 Apartment horror: Sorum and Possessed
- 8 The face(s) of Korean horror film: toward a cinematic physiognomy of affective extremes
- 9 Death Bell and high-school horror
- PART III Contemporary āInternationalā Horror
- 10 Between the local and the global: āAsian Horrorā in Ahn Byung-kiās Phone and Bunshinsaba
- 11 Diary of a lost girl: Victoriana, intertextuality and A Tale of Two Sisters
- 12 From A Tale of Two Sisters to The Uninvited: a tale of two texts
- 13 Oldboy goes to Bollywood: Zinda and the transnational appropriation of South Korean āextremeā cinema
- 14 Park Chan-wookās Thirst: body, guilt and exsanguination
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
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