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A Sociohistorical Contextual Analysis of the Use of Violence in Park Chan-wook's Vengeance Trilogy

Kim, Se Young
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1258132362

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2010, Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, Film (Fine Arts).
This article situates the three films of Park Chan-wook’s, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002), Oldboy (2003), and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2005) within recent South Korean history and offers a historicized analysis of the films’ substantial use of violence. Through contextual analysis that looks to the films as well as the history and society that produced them, this article discovers that the violence is an allegorical tool which serves to convey social commentary pointed at the processes of democratization and capitalism in South Korea.
Louis-Georges Schwartz, Ph.D (Committee Chair)
Julie Turnock, Ph.D (Committee Member)
Michelle Brown, Ph.D (Committee Member)
90 p.
Fine Arts; Mass Media
Park Chan-wook; Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance; Oldboy; Lady Vengeance; South Korean national cinema; South Korean national identity; Ultraviolence

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  • Kim, S. Y. (2010). A Sociohistorical Contextual Analysis of the Use of Violence in Park Chan-wook's Vengeance Trilogy [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1258132362

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Kim, Se Young. A Sociohistorical Contextual Analysis of the Use of Violence in Park Chan-wook's Vengeance Trilogy. 2010. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1258132362.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Kim, Se Young. "A Sociohistorical Contextual Analysis of the Use of Violence in Park Chan-wook's Vengeance Trilogy." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1258132362

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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