Subject Guides
Korean Studies
Guide Contents
Through Korean Cinema
Scholarly Journal Database via BU Libraries
- FIAF International Index to Film PeriodicalsIndexes over 500,000 articles from academic and popular film journals. Also includes the International Index to TV Periodicals, Treasures from the Film Archives, silent film holdings archives and International Directory of Film/TV Documentation Collections.
- Film Literature IndexContains approximately 700,000 citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews published between 1976-2001.
- Asian Film Online via Academic Video Online (AVON)Asian Film Online offers a view of Asian culture as seen through the lens of the independent Asian filmmaker. Through a selection of over 1,000 narrative feature films, documentaries and short movies.
Sources from South Korea
- Korea FilmCouncil (KOFIC)KOFIC is a government supported body. It’s primary objective is to promote and support the production of Korean films through funding, research, education and training.
- Korean Cinema TodayA fulltext journal by KOFIC.
- Busan International Film Festival (BIFF)is one of the most significant film festivals in Asia. After its establishment in 1996, BIFF has focused on introducing and supporting new Asian directors and their films. BIFF is a non-competitive festival but it also operates a competitive program.
Useful Subject Headings
Motion pictures – Korea (South)
Motion picture industry – Korea (South)
Motion picture – Social aspects – Korea (South)
Motion picture – Korea – 20th century – History and criticism
Popular culture – Korea – History – 21st century
Film criticism -- Korea
Books in BU Libraries' Collection
New Korean Cinema by Call Number: Fine Art PN1993.5.K6 N48 2005ISBN: 0814740294Publication Date: 2005
South Korean Film Renaissance by Call Number: Fine Art Collection PN1993.5.K6 C4845 2010ISBN: 9780819569400Publication Date: 2010This book provides both an industrial and an aesthetic account of how the Korean film industry managed to turn an economic crisis;triggered in part by globalizing processes in the world film industry;into a fiscal and cultural boom.
Seoul Searching by ISBN: 9780791472262Publication Date: 2007Korean cinema as industry, art form, and cultural product.
