East Asian Studies 214 - KOREAN FILM AND CULTURE

Topics course. An overview of Korean film history, from its colonial beginnings to the present, tracing the correlation between film and major historical, political and cultural events or shifts over the past century. Topically organized, the course covers some major moments in modern Korean (film) history, and explores issues of cultural identity in the ways that the domestic movie industry has interacted with the foreign filmic audience. Focusing on how film narratives can influence social reality, we analyze the imagination and construction of national identity and cultural tradition across these films. Enrollment limited to 20. (E)

Topic: The Appeal of Korean Film.