KRN399
Contemporary Korean Cinema (Fall 2011/4 Credits)

Prof. Dong Hoon Kim
1000 -1120 (Mondays & Wednesdays, Lecture and Discussion)
1700 – 1850 (Mondays, Film Screening)

This course is a survey of Korean cinema, focusing specifically on South Korean films produced since the 1990s. This class will endeavor to cover a range of relevant issues and elements that have come to define contemporary Korean national cinema. In particular, we will explore the endeavors made by Korean film industry and filmmakers in order to cope with rapidly changing political, social and cultural practices as well as the production and consumption of Korean cinema on a global stage. This class, therefore, will look into a variety of issues in contemporary Korean cinema such as changes in newly emerging film authors, film business practices, politics of international film festivals, film & media co-productions, transnational stars and so on. By investigating these questions, this course will not only serve to be a primer to Korean cinema, but more importantly an in-depth case study that challenge and expand the discussions of national cinema. Screenings include Memonto Mori, Repatriation, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… Spring, My Sassy Girl, Take Care of My Cat and more. All of the films will be screened with English subtitles.