Zainichi Cinema

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction: Koreans-in-Japan On-Screen

   • Oliver Dew

   Pages 1-35

3. 1968/2004: Bridging Imjin River

   • Oliver Dew

   Pages 37-64

4. Screening the Zainichi Subject

   • Oliver Dew

   Pages 65-100

5. Excavating the Zainichi Yakuza Film

   • Oliver Dew

   Pages 101-128

6. ‘Pacchigi Power!’: The ‘Coming-Out’ Melodrama

   • Oliver Dew

   Pages 129-157

7. Arirang Kamikaze: Screening the Memory Wars

   • Oliver Dew

   Pages 159-187

8. Intimate Ethnographies: Three Family Portraits

   • Oliver Dew

   Pages 189-219

9. Conclusion

   • Oliver Dew

   Pages 221-225

10. Back Matter

    Pages 227-235

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This book examines how filmmakers, curators, and critics created a category of transnational, Korean-in-Japan (Zainichi) Cinema, focussing on the period from the 1960s onwards. An enormously diverse swathe of films have been claimed for this cinema of the Korean diaspora, ranging across major studio yakuza films and melodramas, news reels created by ethnic associations, first-person video essays, and unlikely hits that crossed over from the indie distribution circuit to have a wide impact across the media landscape. Today, Zainichi-themed works have never had a higher profile, with new works by Matsue Tetsuaki, Sai Yoichi, and Yang Yonghi frequently shown at international festivals. Zainichi Cinema argues that central to this transnational cinema is the tension between films with an authorized claim to “represent”, and ambiguous and borderline works that require an active spectator to claim them as images of the Korean diaspora.

• Zainichi
• Japan
• Korea
• Reception
• Criticism
• Curation
• Matsue Tetsuaki
• Sai Yoichi
• Yang Yonghi
• East Asian Cinema
• Japanese Studies
• Zainichi Koreans
• Transnational Cinema
• Diasporic Cinema
• World Cinema

• London, United Kingdom

  Oliver Dew

Oliver Dew was awarded his PhD by Birkbeck College, University of London, in 2012. He was a JSPS Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo 2012-14. His articles have been published in the Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema (2014), Nihon eiga wa ikiteiru (2010), and New Cinemas (2007). 

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