Product Description: 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 cinema s role in the formation of Korean identities...read more

Product Description: From the Wizard of Oz to Lolita, from the Heathers to the Spice Girls, images of girlhood have been projected on the silver screen in myriad ways. Whether a girl is taught that "there is no place like home" or is seeking adventure on her own terms, whether she is a seductress or a nerd, a babysitter or a murderer, films have depicted society's problematic expectations of girls together with the dreams, anxieties, and tensions experience by girls themselves...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

(view table of contents)

(view table of contents)