Kim Ki-duk Book

Contents

Acknowledgments |....................ix
BEYOND "EXTREME": THE CINEMA OF RESSENTIMENT |....................1
Kim Ki-duk: Towards a More Perfect Imperfection....................1
An Auteur Is Born: Fishhooks, Critical Debates, and Transnational Canons....................12
On Suffering and Sufferance: Postcolonial Pain and the "Purloined Letter" in Address Unknown....................26
Reconciling the Paradox of Silence and Apologia: Bad Guy, The Isle, and 3-Iron....................45
Neofeminist Revisions: Female Bodies and Semiotic Chora in Birdcage Inn and Samaritan Girl....................69
The Bodhisattva Inner-Eye: Inwardly Drawn Transcendence in Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ... and Spring....................104
INTERVIEW WITH KIM KI-DUK: FROM CROCODILE TO ADDRESS UNKNOWN, BY KIM SO-HEE |....................127
Filmography |....................141
Bibliography |....................147
Index |....................155