Localized Globalization and a Monster National
The Host and the South Korean Film Industry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7532233 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nikki J Y Lee (0000-0002-6342-6725, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 45-61 |
| Publication date | 2011-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cinema Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-7101 • E-ISSN: 1527-2087 |
| Publisher | University of Texas Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/cj.2011.0031 |
| OpenAlex | W2146644743 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 7 |
This essay examines the industrial practices behind the domestic success of the South Korean film The Host ( Goemul ; Bong Joon-ho, 2006), highlighting the Korean film industry's ambivalent nationalist-global ideological stance and its increasingly monopolizing and globalizing tendencies, and arguing that Korea's pursuit of indigenous movie blockbusters has turned it into an international producer and distributor of localized global movies
Art · Art history · Globalization · Humanities · Monster · Political science · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Law
Theatrical cinema in South Africa
Of fleas and Parasite
Storming off the tracks
Monstrous National Allegory
Producing global China
Proliferation of Hallyu Wave and Korean Popular Culture Across the World
‘Asianization’ and locally customized ‘Kor-Asian’ movies
Reading Cold War Ruins in Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite
Africa – Asia Relations through the Prism of Television Drama
The Sacred Engine and the Rice Paddy
The rise of the Brazilian blockbuster
Korean Popular Cinema and Television in the Twenty-First Century
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,86 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2024 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |