Remake, Repeat, Revive
Kim Ki-young’s Housemaid Trilogies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20056765 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nikki J Y Lee (0000-0002-6342-6725), Julian Stringer |
| Year | 2012 |
| Pages | 145-163 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Film Trilogies (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9780230371972_8 |
| OpenAlex | W2265843750 |
| ISBN | 9780230371972 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
Together with Shin Sang-ok and Yu Hyun-mok, Kim Ki-young ("Mr Monster") is one of the most celebrated directors of the 1960s Golden Age of South Korean Cinema. After his peak career achievements of those years as well as the 1970s, Kim kept a low profile during the Korean film industry's decline in the 1980s. However, his fame started to revive at the end of that decade when his later movies were released on VHS and attracted cult attention from young cinephiles such as Park Chan-wook and Bong Joon-ho. His reputation subsequently grew in the 1990s with the staging of a major retrospective, entitled Kim Ki-young: Cinema of Diabolic Desire and Death, at the 1997 Pusan International Film Festival, as well as a small retrospective at the 1998 Berlin International Film Festival. Unfortunately, though, the latter turned out to be a posthumous event as Kim died, along with his wife, in a house fire not long before his planned departure for Germany. Kim's sudden death served only to bolster his legend, adding one final tragedy to the many tales of eccentric behavior frequently recalled in accounts of this highly original cult auteur. However, when placed alongside the limited availability of many of the 32 films Kim directed between 1955 and his demise (some of which remain lost), such mystification has arguably hindered the development of serious critical research into his life and work.2
Ancient history · Art · Art history · Cult · Demise · Legend · Literature · Monster · Movie theater · Political science · Wife · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Cinema and Media Studies · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |