Seoul Searching

Seoul SearchingKorean cinema as industry, art form, and cultural product. Seoul Searching is a collection of fourteen provocative essays about contemporary South Korean cinema, the most productive and dynamic cinema in Asia. Examining the three dominant genres that have led Korean film to international acclaim melodramas, big budget action blockbusters, and youth films the contributors look at Korean cinema as industry, art form, and cultural product, and engage

life writing

Documents how even progressive foundations serve to reinforce the political status quo

economic insecurity

are scarce

differ in the number of elected Hispanic and black representatives

made especially glaring when enacted by men

and video interviews with scholars discussing the same topics in the educated variety

A photo-collage of past and present street visuals in Asia

in this new edition

Trine Erotic explores why we write: to seduce (as mating strategy)

which are presented in this volume for the first time

and even Vincent Price to create a unique vision of savage poetry and lacerating despair: Witchfinder General