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Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. He specializes in pan-Asian cinema, sound theory, the international action cinema, and post-colonial theory. He has previously taught at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, Illinois State University, Illinois Wesleyan University, University of Iowa, American University of Paris, and the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne. The two decades following the end of the Korean War brought with it a politicized bifurcation of the peninsula whereby the cherished notion of Korea as one single unified country was placed on hold. Each half engaged in the politicization of national culture by promoting its own version as legitimate and superior. As can be expected, North Korea adopted socialist realism and welcomed the exhibition of like-minded films from other communist nations. A similar process happened in South Korea but with a preference for films from democratic nations. The long isolationism that was the hallmark of Korea as the "Hermit Kingdom" transformed to viewing the larger world, but only half rather than all of it. The Gallery Talk is being presented in conjunction with The Korea Society's current exhibition, Advertising a Dream: Movie Posters from Post-War Korea, which runs through October 31, 2006. The exhibition may be viewed from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM in The Korea Society Gallery. Photo: |
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