#  "Korean Cinema and Transnationality" Film Series 

 



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####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **September 9 - December 3, 2014** 

 All day 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Room 212, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138**  



 

 



 

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Film series for **Korean Cinema and Transnationality: Conference Course** (East Asian Film and Media Studies 121)   
with **Hyangjin Lee**, Kim Koo Visiting Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations  
  
This film series explores key issues and themes in the study of Korean cinema today, including the concept of transnationality. The series constitutes three parts: first, we will examine historical transformations, as portrayed in national cinema, and transnational historicity, focusing on selected films’ views and criticisms on topics such as ethnic nationalism, colonial memories, the legacy of the Cold War, national division, and democratization. In the second part of the series, we will address issues of diaspora, migration, North Korean defectors, globalization in South Korean films. The final films of the series will investigate the rise of transnational/post-national Korean cinema in Japan and China.   
  
All screenings will be held in Room 212, 2 Divinity Avenue, on Tuesdays at 6:00 p.m.  
  
**Screening Schedule**  
  
**PART I: NATIONAL CINEMA—HISTORY AND GENRES**

September 9  
**Horror: Ghosts of Japanese Colonialism and Family Melodrama**  
*The Public Cemetery under the Moon* (Kwon Cheol-hui, 1967)  
  
September 16  
**Historical Drama: The Politics of Sexuality and Cultural Tradition**  
*Sopyonje* (Im Kwontaek, 1993)  
  
September 23  
**War Film: A Genealogy of Anticommunism**  
*Spring in My Hometown* (Yi Kwang-mo, 1998)   
  
September 30  
**Action Thriller/Neo-Noir: Breaking Taboos in a Post-Confucian Society**  
*Oldboy* (Park Chan-wook, 2003)

**PART II: IMAGINING OTHERNESS FROM A SOUTH KOREAN PERSPECTIVE**   
  
October 7  
**Mixed Children at American Military Bases in Post-Colonial Film**  
*Address Unknown* (Kim Ki-dok, 2001)  
  
October 14  
**North Koreans and Migrant Workers in Division Drama**  
*The Journals of Musan* (Park Jung-Bum, 2011)   
  
October 21  
**Imaginary Diaspora and Co-Produced Films**  
*Rikidozan: A Hero Extraordinary* (Song Hae-sung, 2004)   
  
October 28   
**Myths of Homogeneity and Globalization**  
*The Yellow Sea* (Na Hong-jin, 2011)

**PART III: HALLYU AND KOREAN DIASPORA CINEMA**   
  
November 4  
**Portrayals of Zainichi and the Korean Wave in Japanese Film**   
*Go* (Isao Yokisada, 2002)   
  
November 11  
**Korean-Japanese Diaspora Film by Sai Yoichi**  
*Blood and Bones* (Sai Yoichi, 2005)   
  
November 18  
**Korean-Japanese Diaspora Film by Gu Su Yeon**  
*Hard Romanticker* (Gu Su Yeon, 2011)   
  
December 2  
**Korean-Chinese Diaspora Film by Zhang Lu**  
*Dooman River* (Zhang Lu, 2010)   
  
*Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute*  
*Supported by the Kim Koo Visiting Professorship Endowment at Harvard University*



 

 



 

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