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K-Zombies, Quality TV and Social Upheaval: The Case of The Kingdom Series

Dejan Durić ; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci

Sažetak

Korean TV-series Kingdom, created by Kim Eun-hee, has been a huge success on both Korean and the global market, owing its hype to the success of the Korean wave, K-zombie trend, and the revival of horror in South Korean cinema in the late 1990s. It is special in that it situates the zombie narrative in a particular historical period creating an alternative version of the Korean Middle Ages. The argument considers the series in comparison to contemporary developments in so-called “quality TV” as well as its relationship to the K-zombie trend, while it emphasizes the way that the series uses the zombie figure and the motif of hunger in order to consider contemporary social, economic, and political relations in the country.

Ključne riječi

TV series; zombie; the Korean Wave; Kingdom; hunger

Hrčak ID:

278153

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/278153

Datum izdavanja:

27.5.2022.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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