To Ed,
I nearly forgot to mention that you may want to check out a book written by
Lee Hyangjin, entitled "Contemporary Korean Cinema: Identity, Culture,
Politics", published a few years back by Manchester University Press. The
bibliography at the back has an extensive reference to South and North
Korean films which have made it both in the international box office
records, and in artistic film history in Korea. The book itself does not
study the recent films released such as "Shiri", "Joint Security Area",
"Comrade"(also known as "Double Agent"), which touches on the after-effects
of the Korean War in the permanent separation of the peninsula into two
states, but it has various salient points to stress, one of which is the
commonality of Korean culture amidst ideological-political discontinuity
between the two states.
Kevin
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