[KS] Publication Announcement: Acta Koreana, Vol. 14, No. 1

[Michael Finch]

Dear KS List members,

Academia Koreana, the Korean studies research institute of Keimyung
University, Daegu, is pleased to announce the publication of *Acta
Koreana,*Vol. 14, No. 1, a theme issue on Korean cinema, guest-edited
and introduced
by Brian Yecies and Ae-Gyung Shim of the University of Wollongong,
Australia. This issue also contains translations of two short stories by the
contemporary woman novelist Ch'On Un-yOng and poems by SO KOjOng
(1420-1488), as well as reviews of nine recently published books in the
field of Korean studies. The complete table of contents may be found at the
foot of this e-mail.

*Acta Koreana* is an English language, refereed journal that is published
bi-annually on 15 June and 15 December. Submissions of academic articles,
and interviews in the field of Korean studies and translations of Korean
literature are accepted throughout the year, but articles intended for the
next issue Vol. 14, No. 2, which will be a theme issue on Korean
Confucianism and ecology, should be submitted no later than 1 September,
2011.

For more information about Acta Koreana's aims, editorial board, and
submission guidelines, please visit our website at
http://actkoreana.kmu.ac.kr

Best regards,

Michael Finch
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*acta koreana, vol. 14, no. 1*
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*korean cinema theme issue ARTICLES*


Contemporary Korean Cinema:
Challenges and the Transformation of ‘Planet Hallyuwood’

By Brian Yecies and Ae-Gyung Shim
1–15



An Insider’s View of a Film Industry in Transition:

Darcy Paquet’s Meditations on the Contemporary Korean Cinema

By Darcy Paquet
17–32

Somewhere Between Anti-Heroism and Pantomime:

Song Kang-ho and the Uncanny Face of the Korean Cinema

By* *Brian Yecies
33–71

Analysis of *Changhwa Hongnyŏn* (*A Tale of Two Sisters*)

—with a Special Focus on the Narrative and Characters

By Seo Jeongnam
73–116

Three Periods of Korean Queer Cinema:

Invisible, Camouflage, and Blockbuster**

By Pil Ho Kim
117–136

How *Wonderful Days* Became *Sky Blue*:

The Transnational Circulation of South Korean Animation

By Daniel Martin
137–152



Another Undiscovered Country: Culture, Reception

and the Adoption of the Science Fiction Genre in South Korea

By Gord Sellar*
*153–174



Anticommunist War Films of the 1960s

and the Korean Cinema’s Early Genre-bending Traditions

By Ae-Gyung Shim
175–196



Planet Hallyuwood: Imaging the Korean War

By Theodore Hughes
197–212

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Whither the Korean Film Industry?

By Doobo Shim
213–227



*Articles*



Perceptions of the Ten Diagrams on Sage Learning in the Chosŏn Era:

Focusing on Trends in Its Dissemination, Deepening and Diffusion

By Dongkun Lee
229–265



Immigration and Imperialism:

A New Look at the Japanese Takeover of Korea

By Wayne Patterson
267–274

*LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION*

“Ali Skips Rope” By Ch’ŏn Un-yŏng

Translated by Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton
275–293



“After Taste” By Ch’ŏn Un-yŏng

Translated by Julie Y. Min
295–307

* *

Selected Poems by Sŏ Kŏjŏng

Translated by Kevin O’Rourke
309–311

*BOOK REVIEWS*

*Inside the Red Box: North Korea’s Post-totalitarian Politics*

By Patrick McEachern

Brian Myers
313–316

* *

*Waxen Wings: The Acta Koreana Anthology of Short Fiction from Korea*

Edited by Bruce Fulton

Charles Montgomery
316–320

* *

*Social Darwinism and Nationalism in Korea: The Beginnings (1880s–1910s)**:*

*“Survival” as an Ideology of Korean Modernity*

By Vladimir Tikhonov

Michael C. E. Finch
320–325

* *

*Crisis in North Korea, the Failure of De-Stalinization, 1956*

By Andrei N. Lankov**

*Historial Dictionary of North Korea.*

By Ilpyong J. Kim

Daniel kane
325–331

* *

*Adopted Territory**: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of
Belonging***

By Eleana J. Kim

Tobias Hubinette
331–333



*Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: *

*The Living, Dead, and Undead in Japan’s Imperialism, 1895**–**1945*

By Mark Driscoll

Mark Caprio
333–337



*Establishing a Pluralist Society in Medieval Korea, 918–1170**:*

*History, Ideology and Identity in the Koryŏ Dynasty***

By Remco E. Breuker

Michael C. E. Finch
337–344



*Cultural Studies and Cultural Industries** in Northeast Asia: *

*What a Difference a Region Makes*

Edited by Chris Berry, Nicola Liscutin and Jonathan D. Mackintosh

Steven Epstein
344–349

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*A History of Korea**: An Episodic Narrative*

By Kyung Moon Hwang

Michael C. E. Finch
349–352
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