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| Speak on Korean Cinema: The Renaissance of Korean Films 3 (2007) |
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| [ Iilumination Series Vol.1 ] |
| Kim Seung-ho: Face of Father, Portrait of Korean Cinema (2007) |
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10,000won | 148 page | soft cover | Korean
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| Kim Seung-ho: Face of Father, Portrait of Korean Cinema (2007) |
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Not for sale | 132 page | soft cover | English
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| [ Korean Films Research Material Series 04 ] |
| Korean Films in Newspaper Articles 1962-1964 (2006) |
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Not for sale | 1,341 page | hard cover
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| [ Korean Films Verbal Series 03 ] |
| Speak on Korean Cinema: The Renaissance of Korean Films 2 (2006) |
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20,000 won | 480 page | A5 | soft cover
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| [ Korean Film History Review Vol.2 ] |
| A History of Korean Cinema - from 1970s through 1990s (2006) |
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Not for sale | 210 page | soft cover
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| [ Film Preservation Guide ] |
| The Film Preservation Guide-The Basics For Archives, Libraries, and Museums (2006) |
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| [ Filmography of Director Lee Man-hee ] |
| Film Prodigy Lee Man-hee (2005) |
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15,000 won | 270 page | soft cover
This book was created as a handbook for the exhibition “Filmography of Director Lee Man-hee” hosted by the Korean Film Archive in May of 2006. The handbook is full of valuable resources on director Lee Man-hee’s life, information on individual films, introduction of people who worked with director Lee Man-hee and their interviews, images of his films and of the director himself. At a time when people have high interests regarding the director, this will prove to be fundamental historical data in arranging Lee Man-hee’s life and his film work.
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| [ Korean Films Verbal Series 02 ] |
| Speak on Korean Cinema: The Renaissance of Korean Films 1 (2005) |
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20,000 won | 462 page | soft cover
This is the second product of the Korean Film Archive’s senior film personnel oral history project. Ten senior film workers such as director Kim Ki-duk, Lee Gang-won, actors Lee Gyeong-hee, Lee Min, Yoon In-ja, cameraman Seo Jeong-min, Jeong Jo-myeong, lighting engineer Park Chang-ho, critic Im Yeong, and scenario writer Han Woo-jeong come together to shed light upon the ‘Renaissance of Korean films’ of the late 1950s through their deep and rich verbal accounts. Kim Gi-deok, who started off the boom of youth movies with , director Lee Min who made , which was the greatest controversy of the 1950s, actress Yoon In-ja, who is famous for appearing in Korea’s first kiss scene in , and Seo Jeong-min and Jeon Jo-myeong, who are still working as cameramen, and Han Woo-jeong, the scenario writer who worked with director Lee Man-hee, all have interesting stories to tell with vivid photographs from their personal photo albums.
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| [ Korean Film History Research Material Series 03 ] |
| Korean Films in Newspaper Articles 1958-1961 (2005) |
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Not for sale | 1,130 page | hard cover
A sequel to the <Korean Films in Newspaper Articles 1945-1957> published in 2004. Approximately 3,000 articles related to Korean films that appear in major daily newspapers from 1958 to 1961 have been selected and organized. The crucial 4 years when Korean film was entering a period of renaissance are vividly reproduced through abundant historical resources. Jo Joon-hyeong of the Korean Film Archive, Ph.D. student Lee Woo-seok of Chungang University, Ph.D. student Yoon Hye-sook of Dongguk University, and Jo Oei-sook participated as researchers.
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| Korean Film Studies 1980~1997 (2005) |
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15,000 won | 312 page | A4 | soft cover
This is a sequel to Book 01. The book is a compilation of Korean film history from 1980-1997. Korean film history from the 1980s to the 1990s is divided into aesthetics, genre, policy, industry, and criticism and experts from each field prepared the manuscript. This is the first book to make a systematic and serious approach to Korean film history of the ‘80s and ‘90s. Film critic Yoo Ji-na, Mun Jae-cheol, Kang So-won and Jo Joon-hyeong from the Korean Film Archive participated as authors.
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| A History of Korean Cinema (2005) |
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Not for sale | 193 page | soft cover
This book is the first in the series of Korean Film History Review, part of the project to introduce Korean film history to foreigners. Book 1 is a translation of the entire manuscript of Korean Film Archive’s and parts of into English. The book is an overall introduction of Korean film history from 1945 to 1960. This book will serve as a useful guide to film scholars in other countries, who wish to obtain basic knowledge about Korean film history.
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| Speak on Korean Cinema : Reflections on 1950s Korean Cinema (2004) |
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18,000 won | 440 page | A5 | soft cover
This book, the fruit of an interview project with senior cinema experts in 2004, is the first volume in a series. The Korean Film Archive plans to publish a book every year using the interviews of Korean senior cinema experts, which will continue to be conducted on a regular basis. This year, the Archive completed 60 recordings with 22 senior cinema individuals in total, as direct witnesses of Korean film development who were in the field producing film culture in the 1950s. Their reflections were recorded on about 200 DVCAM tapes. The interviews were transcribed from the tapes in their entirety and reorganized into publishable form. The result is the book, .
This book contains all the major cinema players: directors Noh Jinseop, Park Sangho, Ha Hansu; programmers Kim Ingi, Hwang Nam; recorder Son Inho; artist Noh Intaek; actors/actresses Lee Taekgyun, Im Haelim, Choi Jihui; dubbing artist Lee Hyegyeong; writers Kim Jiheon, Choi Seokgyu; musician Jeon Jeonggeun; journalist Kang Daeseon; lighting technicians Kim Seokjin, Ma Yongcheon; cameraman Hong Donghyeok; reviewer Ho Hyeokchan; editors Kim Huisu, Lee Doweon; special effects Choi Hyeongrae. It also includes testimonies and photographs of those who were very important in the field of Korean cinema but who were not in the limelight.
will provide invaluable information not only to film scholars but also to those that simply love Korean film.
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| [ Korean Film History Research Series 01 ] |
| Korean Film Studies 1960 to 1979 (2004) |
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15,000 won | 272 page | A5 | soft cover
The book is a comprehensive look at the Korean film history between 1960 and 1979. It is categorized into ascetics, genres, industries, skills, theater culture and so on, and each part was written by experts in the given field. Considering that there has been no comprehensive book on Korean film history despite an increasing interest in Korean film these days, this book seems all the more important.
In addition, the appendix includes a chronological table of 1960s and 1970s film history and tables of changes in cinema and performance skills. |
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| [ Korean Film History Research Material Series 02 ] |
| The Korean Cinema in Newspapers: 1945-1957 (2004) |
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Not for sale | 837 page | hard cover
This book is a collection of newspaper articles from 1945, right after Liberation, to 1957, when Korean cinema was beginning to rise. This book is an extensive compilation of more than 2,000 related articles from a variety of newspapers including minor publications such as Art Sources, ChosunJungang, Jungoe as well as five major dailies such as Chosun, Donga, Kyeonghyang, Hanguk, and Seoul. It will be especially helpful for grasping the cinema circle during the period from 1945 to 1950 when there was little research on Korean cinema. The articles are chronologically arranged by year, and the index of articles, actors, actresses, and film titles in the back of the book will serve as a great historical reference tool. |
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| [ Korean Film History Research Material Series 01 ] |
| Traces of Korean Cinema from 1945~1959 (2003) |
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18,000 won | 326 page | A5 | soft cover
You can also see posters and stills from the period between 1945 and 1959, which will help readers understand the state of Korean cinema at that time. The book consists of three chapters. The first chapter, , discusses the Korean cinema circle and films from the period right after Liberation; social and political realities; cultural and artistic trends; the Chosun Film Alliance; and the American military occupation in Korea. The second chapter covers: Korean films made during the war which became the starting point for the growth of Korean film; the producing skills and activities of cinema technicians of the time; production equipment and facilities; the plethora of foreign films; and the basis for the incipient Korean film industry's growth. It presents film production realities after the war, the intrusion of American film with capitalist principles, and the extent of the public's interest in motion pictures. In the third chapter <1950s Korean Cinema>, you can witness: the production trend; the boom of the melodrama; (Jayu Buin), which adopted a modernistic way of thinking and became the emblem of resistance; images of women and men; the dualistic attitude toward modernity; and the narrative format and traces of it in 1950s Korean film.
The book also features posters and visual materials which are regarded as historically important to promote understanding of film history, thereby presenting a fact-based, post-war Korean film history. You can also learn about other aspects, such as the economic intrusion of a world power in the advancement of American film in the Korean film market after Liberation, the knowledge of which helps in understanding the present-day debate on screen quotas. Furthermore, the brief synopses are a great help in grasping how Korean cinema has developed. In addition, this book features English translations to help foreigners who are interested in Korean film history. |
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