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 Screening and Panel Discussion
with
Christine Choy, Film Director
Jung-Bong Choi, Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU
Jina Kim, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, Smith College
Thursday, August 28, 2008
5:30 PM-6:00 PM ♦ Registration and Reception
6:00 PM-7:00 PM ♦ Screening
7:00 PM-8:00 PM ♦ Presentation and Q&A
The Korea
Society
950 Third Avenue, Eighth
Floor, New York
City
(Building entrance on SW corner of
Third
Avenue and 57th Street)
The Korean film industry, which once
struggled to attract domestic audiences, has been successfully
exporting its products and expanding its influence throughout
Asia, Europe and North America in the past decade. These days, casual
observers associate Korean cinema with the
broader cultural phenomenon of hallyu ("Korean Wave").
But contemporary Korean cinema’s roots run deep and hallyu is only the latest chapter in a rich history.
In her new documentary, Cinema Korea (a Dreamville production),
Academy Award-nominated director Christine Choy brings together interviews with
actors and directors, archival footage of classic Korean films and accounts of
defining historical events to give a fully rounded view of Korean film culture.
Interviewees include Im Kwon-taek, Kim Ki-duk, Jang Dong-gun, Jeon Ji-hyun, Lee
Byung-hun, Kwak Kyung-taek, Bang Eun-jin.
Join The Korea Society for a screening
of this exciting new documentary, followed by a discussion on the
current state of Korean cinema. Director Christine Choy will introduce
her film, and field questions from the audience with Jung-Bong Choi,
assistant professor of cinema studies at Tisch School of the Arts and
Jina Kim, assistant professor of East Asian Studies at Smith College.
$10 for members (The Korea Society
or yKAN) and students, $15 for nonmembers
Buy tickets
(Walk-in registration will incur an additional charge of $5)
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Co-sponsored by yKAN 
About the Film
Cinema Korea
2006, 50 minutes
Directed and written by Christine Choy
About the Presenters
Christine Choy is
an Oscar-nominated filmmaker and the chair of the graduate film and
television department of New York University. She was trained as an
architect, receiving her MS from the Graduate School of Architecture,
Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University. Choy earned a
directing certificate from the American Film Institute (AFI). She has
produced and directed about seventy cinematographic works, including Homes Apart: The Two Koreas (1991), Out in Silence (1994), and In the Name of the Emperor
(1994). In the course of her career, she has received over sixty
international awards, most notably fellowships from the John Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the
Asian Cultural Council. She also earned an academy award nomination for
the documentary film, Who Killed Vincent Chin? (1988).
In addition to teaching at New York
University, where she became the first chair of the graduate film
school of Asian descent, Choy has lectured at Yale, Cornell and SUNY
Buffalo. She was also a visiting scholar at Evergreen State College as
well as the Oslo and Volda film institutes in Norway.
JungBong Choi
is an assistant professor in the department of cinema studies at New
York University’s Tisch School of the Arts as well as a visiting
assistant professor of cinema studies at Korea National University of
Arts. Choi has taught cinema studies and Japanese and Korean media
culture at the University of California Santa Barbara and the
University of Iowa.
His
research centers on the sociopolitical aspects of culture,
media/cinema, and digital technologies within the theoretical
frameworks of the nation-state and globalization. Other research
interests include the hallyu phenomenon, Korean media
culture and cultural regionalization in Asia. Choi's writings have
appeared in a number of books and journals including the Journal of International Communication, Social Identities, and the Journal of Communication Inquiry. The co-editor of Television, Japan, and Globalization (University of Michigan Press, forthcoming), he is currently at work on a book about the rise of the East Asian cultural sphere.
Jina Kim
is an assistant professor of East Asian studies at Smith College. She
received her MA and PhD in Asian languages and literature and an MA in
international studies from the University of Washington. Her research
focuses on the cultural history of early 20th century Korea with
primary concentrations in Korean and global modernisms and urban
modernity. Other research interests include comparative colonialisms,
the Korean diaspora, critical and cultural theory, gender, science and
technology studies, film history, and media culture.
Kim is the author of the forthcoming
essays “Aesthetics of Horror: Fear and Madness in Contemporary Korean
Cinema” and “Love, Loss, and Longing: From Sijo to Contemporary Ballad,
A Psychoanalytic Reading.” Kim teaches courses on Korean film,
contemporary popular culture, gender and modernity, urban space and
identity, and other courses on Korean literature and history. Prior to
coming to Smith College, she taught Korean literature in the Department
of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of
Pennsylvania.
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