4,059
Views
1
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Essays

Biocalyptic imaginations in Japanese and Korean films: undead nation-states in I Am a Hero and Train to Busan

References

  • Agamben, Giorgio. 1998. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Translated by Daniel Heller-Roazen. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
  • Agamben, Giorgio. 2005. State of Exception. Translated by Kevin Attell. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Bishop, Kyle. 2006. “Raising the Dead.” Journal of Popular Film and Television 33 (4): 196–205. doi: 10.3200/JPFT.33.4.196-205
  • Bishop, Kyle. 2008. “The Sub-Subaltern Monster: Imperialist Hegemony and the Cinematic Voodoo Zombie.” The Journal of American Culture 31 (2): 141–152. doi: 10.1111/j.1542-734X.2008.00668.x
  • Bishop, Kyle. 2009. “Dead Man Still Walking: Explaining the Zombie Renaissance.” Journal of Popular Film and Television 37 (1): 16–25. doi: 10.3200/JPFT.37.1.16-25
  • Bong, Joon-ho, dir. 2013. Snowpiercer. DVD. Seoul: CJ Entertainment.
  • Boon, Kevin. 2011. “The Zombies as Other: Mortality and the Monstrous in the Post-Nuclear Age.” In Better off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-Human, edited by Deborah Christie and Sarah Juliet Lauro, 50–60. New York: Fordham University Press.
  • Boyle, Danny, dir. 2002. 28 Days Later. DVD. London: Fox Searchlight Pictures.
  • Brooks, Max. 2006. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War. New York: Three Rivers Press.
  • Dayan, Joan. 1997. “Vodoun, or the Voice of the Gods.” In Sacred Possessions: Vodou, Santeria, Obeah, and the Caribbean, edited by M. Fernandez Olmos and L. Paravisini-Gebert, 13–36. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
  • Degoul, Frank. 2011. “‘We are the Mirror of Your Fears’: Haitian Identity and Zombification.” In Better off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-Human, edited by Deborah Christie and Sarah Juliet Lauro, 24–38. New York: Fordham University Press.
  • Dendle, Peter. 2007. “The Zombie as Barometer of Cultural Anxiety.” In Monsters and the Monstrous: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil, edited by Niall Scott, 45–56. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
  • Elliott, Jane, and Gillian Harkins. 2013. “Introduction: Genres of Neoliberalism.” Social Text 31 (2): 1–17. doi: 10.1215/01642472-2081103
  • Embry, Karen, and Sarah Juliet Lauro. 2008. “A Zombie Manifesto: The Nonhuman Condition in the Era of Advanced Capitalism.” Boundary 2 35 (1): 85–108. doi: 10.1215/01903659-2007-027
  • Esposito, Roberto. 2008. Bios: Biopolitics and Philosophy. Translated by Timothy Campbell. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
  • Forster, Marc, dir. 2013. World War Z. DVD. Hollywood: Paramount Pictures.
  • Frank, Darabont, dir. 2010. The Walking Dead, Episode 1–1. Written by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard. New York: AMC Studios.
  • Fresnadillo, Juan Carlos, dir. 2007. 28 Weeks Later. DVD. Los Angeles: Fox Atomic.
  • Hagiwara, Kentaro, dir. 2017. Tokyo Ghoul. DVD. Tokyo: Shochiku.
  • Hamada, Koichi, Anil K. Kashyap, and David E. Weinstein, eds. 2010. Japan’s Bubble, Deflation, and Long-Term Stagnation. Cambridge: MIT Press.
  • Hardt, Michael, and Antonio Negri. 2000. Empire. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
  • Hayashi, Sharon. 2011. “From Exploitation to Playful Exploits: The Rise of Collectives and the Redefinition of Labor, Life, and Representation in Neoliberal Japan.” In Neoliberalism and Global Cinema: Capital, Culture, and Marxist Critique, edited by Jyotsna Kapur and Keith B. Wagner, 180–196. New York: Routledge.
  • Im, Dae-woong, Bum-sik Jung, Ji-young Hong, Gok Kim, Sun Kim, and Kyu-dong Min, dir. 2012. Horror Stories. DVD. Seoul: Lotte Entertainment.
  • IMDb. 2018. “Train to Busan.” Box Office Mojo. Accessed 9 February. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=traintobusan.htm
  • Jack, Andrew. 2015. “Why the Panic? South Korea’s MERS Response Questioned.” BMJ 350: h3403–h3403. doi: 10.1136/bmj.h3403
  • James, C. L. R. 1938. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San. Domingo Revolution. London: Secker and Warburg.
  • Jameson, Fredric. 1986. “Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism.” Social Text 15: 65–88. doi: 10.2307/466493
  • Jameson, Fredric. 1988. “Cognitive Mapping.” In Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, edited by Cary Nelson, 347–357. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
  • Kapur, Jyotsna, and Keith B. Wagner, eds. 2011. Neoliberalism and Global Cinema: Capital, Culture, and Marxist Critique. New York: Routledge.
  • Kee, Chera. 2011. “They Are Not Men … They Are Dead Bodies.” In Better off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-Human, edited by Deborah Christie and Sarah Juliet Lauro, 9–23. New York: Fordham University Press.
  • Kim, Jae Yeol. 2016. “The 2009 H1N1 Pandemic Influenza in Korea.” The Korean Academy of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases 79: 70–73. doi: 10.4046/trd.2016.79.2.70
  • Kim, Jee-woon, and Pil-sung Yim, dir. 2012. Doomsday Book. DVD. Seoul: Lotte Entertainment.
  • Kornbluh, Anna. 2014. Realizing Capital: Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form. New York: Fordham University Press.
  • Lauro, Sarah. 2015. The Transatlantic Zombie: Slavery, Rebellion, and Living Dead. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
  • Lauro, Sarah, and Deborah Christie. 2011. “Introduction.” In Better off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-Human, edited by Deborah Christie and Sarah Juliet Lauro, 1–4. New York: Fordham University Press.
  • Marx, Karl. 1976. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Translated by Ben Fowkes. London: Penguin.
  • McNally, David. 2011. Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism. Chicago: Haymarket.
  • McRoy, Jay, ed. 2005. Japanese Horror Cinema. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.
  • Miike, Takashi, dir. 2015. Yakuza Apocalypse. DVD. Tokyo: Nikkatsu.
  • Muntean, Nick. 2011. “Nuclear Death and Radical Hope in Dawn of the Dead and On the Beach.” In Better off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-Human, edited by Deborah Christie and Sarah Juliet Lauro, 81–97. New York: Fordham University Press.
  • Oh, Young-Doo, Hoon Ryu, Young-Geun Hong, and Youn-Jung Jang, dir. 2010. The Neighbor Zombie. DVD. Seoul: Indiestory.
  • Park, Jung-woo, dir. 2012. Deranged. DVD. Seoul: CJ E&M.
  • Romero, George, dir. [1968] 2005. Night of the Living Dead. DVD. New York: Continental.
  • Romero, George, dir. [1978] 1999. Dawn of the Dead. DVD. New York: United Film.
  • Sato, Sakichi, dir. 2005. Tokyo Zombie. DVD. Tokyo: Toshiba Entertainment.
  • Sato, Shinsuke, dir. 2015. I Am a Hero. DVD. Tokyo: Toho.
  • Shinagawa, Hiroshi, dir. 2015. Z Island. DVD. Tokyou: Kadokawa Daiei.
  • Snyder, Zack, dir. 2004. Dawn of the Dead. DVD. Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures.
  • Song, Jesook. 2006. “Family Breakdown and Invisible Homeless Women: Neoliberal Governance During the Asian Debt Crisis in South Korea, 1997–2001.” Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique 14 (1): 37–66. doi: 10.1215/10679847-14-1-37
  • Stratton, Jon. 2011. “The Trouble With Zombies: Bare Life, Muselmänner and Displaced People.” Somatechnics 1 (1): 188–208. doi: 10.3366/soma.2011.0013
  • Wagner, Keith B. 2016. “Endorsing Upper-Class Refinement or Critiquing Extravagance and Debt? The Rise of Neoliberal Genre Modification in Contemporary South Korean Cinema.” Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies 30 (1): 117–138. doi: 10.1080/02560046.2016.1164389
  • Wagner, Keith B. 2019. “Train to Busan: Glocalization, Korean Zombies, and a Man-Made Neoliberal Disaster.” In Rediscovering Korean Cinema, edited by Sangjoon Lee, forthcoming. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press.
  • Walker, Gregory A. 1986. The Living and The Undead: From Stoker’s Dracula to Romero’s Dawn of the Dead. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
  • Williams, Raymond. 1977. Marxism and Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Yeon, Sang-ho. 2016a. “An Interview.” Hankyoreh. Accessed 9 February 2018. http://www.hanitv.com/230004
  • Yeon, Sang-ho, dir. 2016b. Seoul Station. DVD. Seoul: Next Entertainment World.
  • Yeon, Sang-ho, dir. 2016c. Train to Busan. DVD. Seoul: Next Entertainment World.
  • Yip, Wai-Shun, dir. [1998] 2013. Bio Zombie. YouTube, 17 March. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZfstcLwSXI

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.