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Volume 32, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 1059-440X
  • E-ISSN: 2049-6710

Abstract

This article focuses on how the recent blockbuster hit (Yeon 2016), in transposing the zombie horror genre into the South Korean setting, allows South Korean history and social context to actively shape the manner in which it appropriates a genre largely untested by the local film industry. It argues that the film uses genre as a global vernacular through which to speak of specifically Korean issues (in particular, the Korean War, and the issues of South Korea’s speed-oriented culture), and locates such practice within the broader context of contemporary South Korean cinema.

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