... book manuscript entitled “Documentary’s Expanded Fields: New Media, New Platforms, and the Documentary.” Okin Collective contemporary Korean art video art performance collectivity © 2016 by Camera Obscura 2016 Jihoon Kim is an assistant professor of cinema and media studies at...

...Kyoung-Lae Kang This essay examines two films, Modern Boy (dir. Ji-woo Jeong, South Korea, 2008) and Private Eye (dir. Dae-min Park, South Korea, 2009), both of which depict Seoul in the 1930s—the period during which Korean colonial modernity was fully shaped—and in so doing draw contemporary...

... representation of masculine traumatic symptoms in both Richard Condon's 1959 novel and Frankenheimer's cinematic adaptation of it. In a period of national shame about the unwon Korean conflict, Frankenheimer first feminizes his protagonists by rendering them hysterical, and then allows them to redeem themselves...

... that impact. Histories of cinema generally fall within several dominant paradigms: world cinema; Hollywood or industrial cinema; and cinemas in contradistinction to the Hollywood industrial model—national art-film movements and avant-gardes resistant to the industrial paradigm and its influence. Though...

... influence on the development of contemporary Chinese youth culture.”9 Indeed, Japanese “fever” and the “Korean Wave” of the 1990s and the early twenty-first­ century have affected Chinese youth’s fashion tastes and outlooks on urban romantic relationships. Given Chinese audiences’ attraction to...

... their unregenerate criminality by victimizing hardworking Korean Americans and ruining the American dream for all. In either case, the result was the same: the contemporary media had already improvised a triangulation of racial violence, playing black and yellow against each other for the sake of...

..., Japan/US/Germany, 2004, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar); and Honogurai mizu no soko kara (Dark Water, dir. Hideo Nakata, Japan, 2002), remade as Dark Water (dir. Walter Salles, 2005, featuring Jennifer Connelly); as well as the Korean psycho- logical horror film A Tale of Two Sisters (dir. Ji...

... helpful example of transmediated continu- ity. Or rather, the idea of Kate is a good case in point, particularly since the Caucasian Kate, her ex-­husband, the “Asian-­looking” Jon (of white, Korean, and Hawaiian lineage), and their eight “little China doll” kids reveal the degree to which...

... Duke University Press 33 34  •  Camera Obscura mopolitan style, and dismiss the significance of gender and alter- native histories.”1 Queer cinema constitutes a more politicized international dimension of contemporary Asian cinema, and some of the most vibrant and interesting work...

... cul- ture that boomed during the Korean and Vietnam wars; the adap- tations of private life to accommodate the rhythms and economic ows of corporate life; and the private awareness of one’s ties to hitherto abstract statistics like the gross domestic product (GDP). The housewife is the...

... Japanese, Koreans, and Chinese on the Asian continent through a form of code-switching.”13 While her discussion is less specifically concerned with the woman’s film, her analysis of cross-cultural aspects of 1930s Japanese popular culture is relevant to interpret...

... Korean War, was the show’s focus during the entire run. Alda himself wrote thirteen episodes and directed more than thirty. His production control gradually grew, particularly after original producers Larry Gelbart and Gene Reynolds left the show in 1977, leading some critics to call the...

... militancy among work• ers, influential corporate and business leaders considered increases in con• sumer spending-increases of 30% to 50% -to be necessary to perpetuate prosperity in the postwar era Defense spending for the Cold War and Korean Conflict had complemented an...

... Korean woman on the occasion of her betrothal [210]. Although other surgeons warn that it is “wise to discuss the Oriental and Occidental eye anatomy in terms of differences not at least one other medical article on this type of surgery was titled “Correction of the Oriental Eyelid.”29...