this research entitled “new south korean cinema” deals with a kind of genre bending in new film industry of south korea; a wide-ranging analysis of one of the world's most important contemporary film industries, new korean cinema adopts a cross-cultural and multi-dimensional perspective and provides a comprehensive overview of the production, circulation and reception of modern south korea...

Audiovisual translation, the same as other forms of intercultural communication, tends to intervene with the original in order to comply with the norms of the receiving culture. Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, the Iranian cinema has resorted to a conservative approach wherein the portrayal of the role of women, among other cultural issues, has been controlled to adapt to the Islamic thoug...

This article looks into the transportation of the Chinese epic wuxia 武俠martial arts genre to Korean cinema and asks how the genre changed when it became the muhy̆op武俠 of Korean cinema. In this paper, I intend to look behind the Korean version of the wuxia genre and tackle some of the questions it raises. How should we look at these movies with often intensely nationalist content, which at the sa...