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Seoul Searching

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Seoul Searching

Culture and Identity in

Contemporary Korean Cinema

Frances Gateward, editor

S TATE U NIVERSITY OF N EW Y ORK P RESS

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State University of New York Press, Albany

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Gateward, Frances K.

Seoul searching : culture and identity in contemporary Korean cinema /

Frances Gateward.

p. cm. — (SUNY series, horizons of cinema)

Includes bibiographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-7914-7225-5 (hardcover : alk. paper)

ISBN 978-0-7914-7226-2 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Motion pictures—Korea (South) I. Title.

PN1993.5.K6G38 2007

791.43095195—dc22

2006100306

10987654321

Seoul Searching - Culture and Identity in Contemporary Korean Cinema.pdf