Hyon Joo Yoo is Associate Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Vermont. She is the author of Cinema at the Crossroads: Nation and the Subject in East Asian Cinema and the editor of South Korean Film, a three-volume reference collection.

"The Cinema of the Real offers a compelling account of how cinema can play an emancipatory role for spectators. Its key theoretical intervention is original and wide-reaching: Yoo develops a framework for bridging diegetic irruptions of the Real on screen and viewers' experience of an encounter with the Real. Most striking is the book's grounding in a powerful transnational approach, which highlights the relationship of psychic and cinematic structures to historical and geographic sites of trauma. Yoo's masterful, close readings of a range of films are remarkable for both their riveting analyses and their ability to elucidate key conceptual claims." — Jennifer Friedlander, author of Real Deceptions: The Contemporary Reinvention of Realism

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Real Life, Real Cinema1. The Cinema of the Real2. The Cartography of the Real Body3. The Chronotope of the Drive in the Cinema of the Real4. The Feminine Cinema and Feminine UniversalityNotesBibliographyIndex

Hyon Joo Yoo is Associate Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Vermont. She is the author of Cinema at the Crossroads: Nation and the Subject in East Asian Cinema and the editor of South Korean Film, a three-volume reference collection.

"The Cinema of the Real offers a compelling account of how cinema can play an emancipatory role for spectators. Its key theoretical intervention is original and wide-reaching: Yoo develops a framework for bridging diegetic irruptions of the Real on screen and viewers' experience of an encounter with the Real. Most striking is the book's grounding in a powerful transnational approach, which highlights the relationship of psychic and cinematic structures to historical and geographic sites of trauma. Yoo's masterful, close readings of a range of films are remarkable for both their riveting analyses and their ability to elucidate key conceptual claims." — Jennifer Friedlander, author of Real Deceptions: The Contemporary Reinvention of Realism

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Real Life, Real Cinema1. The Cinema of the Real2. The Cartography of the Real Body3. The Chronotope of the Drive in the Cinema of the Real4. The Feminine Cinema and Feminine UniversalityNotesBibliographyIndex