The Acoustic Mirror and Subversive Visual Strategies in Park Chan Wook’s The Handmaiden by Javier Zapata Claveria

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Behind the Unlimited Revenge: A Review on the Narrative Style of Park Chan-wook - Focusing on the “revenge trilogy” by Yin Nan

“…Among them, the “revenge trilogy” are famous, while they also made the director Park Chan-wook become world-renowned. His films break through the restriction of film genre and set up the complicated revenge structure, the carefully constructed space-time setting and the role-building of morally ambiguous characters. …”
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Rediscovering Korean cinema by Lee, Sangjoon

“…Chapters explore key films of Korean cinema, from Sweet Dream, Madame Freedom, The Housemaid, and The March of Fools to Oldboy, The Host, and Train to Busan, as well as major directors such as Shin Sang-ok, Kim Ki-young, Im Kwon-taek, Bong Joon-ho, Hong Sang-soo, Park Chan-wook, and Lee Chang-dong. While the chapters provide in-depth analyses of particular films, together they cohere into a detailed and multidimensional presentation of Korean cinema’s cumulative history and broader significance. …”
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