Seoul Searching -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1. Industry Trends and Popular Genres -- 1. Korean Cinema after Liberation: Production, Industry, and Regulatory Trends -- 2. Christmas in August and Korean Melodrama -- 3. Storming the Big Screen: The Shiri Syndrome -- 4. Timeless, Bottomless Bad Movies: Or, Consuming Youth in the New Korean Cinema -- PART 2. Directing New Korean Cinema -- 5. Scream and Scream Again: Korean Modernity as a House of Horrors in the Films of Kim Ki-young -- 6. Forgetting to Remember, Remembering to Forget: The Politics of Memory and Modernityin the Fractured Films of Lee Chang-dongand Hong Sang-soo -- 7. Reflexivity and Identity Crisisin Park Chul-soo's Farewell, My Darling -- 8. Nowhere to Hide: The Tumultuous Materialism of Lee Myung-se -- 9. Closing The Circle: Why Has Bodhidharma Left For The East? -- PART 3. Narratives of the National -- 10. Waiting to Exhale: The Colonial Experience and the Trouble with My Own Breathing -- 11. Crossing the Border to the "Other" Side: Dynamics of Interaction betweenNorth and South Koreans in Spy Li Cheol-jin and Joint Security Area -- 12. Race, Gender, and Postcolonial Identity in Kim Ki-duk's\Address Unknown -- 13. Transgressing Boundaries: From Sexual Abuse to Eating Disorders in 301/302 -- 14. Taking the Plunge: Representing Queer Desire in Contemporary South Korean Cinema -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.