Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-227) and index.
Contemporary cultural production in South Korea / Michael Robinson -- The Korean film industry / Darcy Paquet -- Globalization and new Korean cinema / Jeeyoung Shin -- Chunhyang / Hyangjin Lee -- 'Cine-mania' or cinephilia / Soyoung Kim -- Putting Korean cinema in its place / Julian Stringer -- Horror as critique in Tell me something and Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance / Kyu Hyun Kim -- Two of a kind / Chi-Yun Shin -- 'Just because' / Nancy Abelmann and Jung-ah Choi -- All at sea? / Chris Berry -- Peppermint candy / Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park -- The awkward traveler in Turning gate / Kyung Hyun Kim -- Memento mori and other ghostly sexualities / Andrew Grossman and Jooran Lee -- Interethnic romance and political reconciliation in Asako in Ruby shoes / Hye Seung Chung and David Scott Diffrient