Understanding Korean Film
Title | Understanding Korean Film PDF eBook |
Author | Jieun Kiaer |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2021-11-03 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 1000476626 |
Film viewing presents a unique situation in which the film viewer is unwittingly placed in the role of a multimodal translator, finding themselves entirely responsible for interpreting multifaceted meanings at the mercy of their own semiotic repertoire. Yet, researchers have made little attempt, as they have for literary texts, to explain the gap in translation when it comes to multimodality. It is no wonder then that, in an era of informed consumerism, film viewers have been trying to develop their own toolboxes for the tasks that they are faced with when viewing foreign language films by sharing information online. This is particularly the case with South Korean film, which has drawn the interest of foreign viewers who want to understand these untranslatable meanings and even go as far as learning the Korean language to do so. Understanding Korean Film: A Cross-Cultural Perspective breaks this long-awaited ground by explaining the meaning potential of a selection of common Korean verbal and non-verbal expressions in a range of contexts in South Korean film that are often untranslatable for English-speaking Western viewers. Through the selection of expressions provided in the text, readers become familiar with a system that can be extended more generally to understanding expressions in South Korean films. Formal analyses are presented in the form of in-depth discursive deconstructions of verbal and non-verbal expressions within the context of South Korea’s Confucian traditions. Our case studies thus illustrate, in a more systematic way, how various meaning potentials can be inferred in particular narrative contexts.
Family on screen
Title | Family on screen PDF eBook |
Author | Korean film archive |
Publisher | |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2013 |
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Women on Screen
Title | Women on Screen PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Pages | 247 |
Release | 2012 |
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Literature on Screen
Title | Literature on Screen PDF eBook |
Author | Han'guk Yŏngsang Charyowŏn (Seoul, Korea) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Film adaptations |
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Features product information, synopsis and essays about the films.
The Farming of Bones
Title | The Farming of Bones PDF eBook |
Author | Edwidge Danticat |
Publisher | |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Dominican Republic |
ISBN | 9781569471418 |
A novel on a massacre of Haitian immigrants in the Dominican Republic of the 1930s. The protagonists are two Haitian lovers, a sugarcane cutter and a maid. Twenty thousand people died in a government-led campaign of ethnic cleansing. By the author of Breath, Eyes, Memory. The young Haitian National Book Award nominee tells an epic tale of the 1937 tragedy at the border between Haiti & the Dominican Republic. An emotion-charged historical novel about the people of Haiti & the Dominican Republic in which Amabelle, an aging Haitian woman, recalls the the terrible massacre of 1937 & what happened to her & the man she loved. From the acclaimed author of "Krik? Krak!". 1937: On the Dominican side of the Haiti border, Amabelle, a maid to the young wife of an army colonel falls in love with sugarcane cutter Sebastien. She longs to become his wife and walk into their future. Instead, terror unfolds them. But the story does not end here: it begins.
Masculinity on Screen
Title | Masculinity on Screen PDF eBook |
Author | Han'guk P'illŭm Pogwanso |
Publisher | |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Korea |
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Literature on Screen
Title | Literature on Screen PDF eBook |
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Pages | 247 |
Release | 2014 |
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