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Dear Colleagues,<BR>
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A new book on the Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-duk will be published by the University of Illinois Press next month. The book is currently available for pre-sale at Amazon and B&A and will ship in a couple of weeks. Please foward this information widely to anyone who might be interested. Thank you.<BR>
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Hye Seung Chung<BR>
Colorado State University<BR>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2" class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN" lang=EN><FONT size=4>Kim Ki-duk (University of Illinois Press)<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN" lang=EN><EM>A searing study of a controversial international auteur<o:p></o:p></EM></SPAN></P>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN" lang=EN>This study investigates the controversial motion pictures written and directed by the independent filmmaker Kim Ki-duk, one of the most acclaimed Korean auteurs in the English-speaking world. Propelled by underdog protagonists who can only communicate through shared corporeal pain and extreme violence, Kim's graphic films have been classified by Western audiences as belonging to sensationalist East Asian "extreme" cinema, and Kim has been labeled a "psychopath" and "misogynist" in South Korea. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN" lang=EN>Drawing upon both Korean-language and English-language sources, Hye Seung Chung challenges these misunderstandings, recuperating Kim's oeuvre as a therapeutic, yet brutal cinema of Nietzschean <I>ressentiment</I> (political anger and resentment deriving from subordination and oppression). Chung argues that the power of Kim's cinema lies precisely in its ability to capture, channel, and convey the raw emotions of protagonists who live on the bottom rungs of Korean society. She provides historical and postcolonial readings of victimization and violence in Kim's cinema, which tackles such socially relevant topics as national division in <I>Wild Animals</I> and <I>The Coast Guard</I> and U.S. military occupation in <I>Address Unknown.</I> She also explores the religious and spiritual themes in Kim's most recent works, which suggest possibilities of reconciliation and transcendence.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN" lang=EN>"The definitive work on Kim Ki-duk. Hye Seung Chung consistently brings new insights and an original perspective to this divisive director's work."--Daniel Martin, Queen's University Belfast<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN" lang=EN></SPAN></B> </P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN" lang=EN>Hye Seung Chung</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN" lang=EN> is an assistant professor of film and media studies in the department of communication studies at Colorado State University and the author of <I>Hollywood Asian: Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-Ethnic Performance.</I><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<A href="http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/72xxx9mr9780252036699.html">http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/72xxx9mr9780252036699.html</A><BR> </div></body>
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