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Journal Article
positions (2001) 9 (2): 369–399.
Published: 01 May 2001
...Kyung Hyun Kim 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Male Crisis in New Korean Cinema: Reading the Early Films of Park Kwang-su
Kyung Hyun Kim
Park Kwang-su’s film Chilsu and Mansu [Ch’il-su wa Man-su] (1988) depicts
the lives oftwo working-class...
View articletitled, Male Crisis in New <span class="search-highlight">Korean</span> Cinema: Reading the Early <span class="search-highlight">Films</span> of Park Kwang-su
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Journal Article
positions (2015) 23 (4): 785–806.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Jinsoo An This essay examines Cold War political discourse in South Korea's Manchurian action films. It opens by questioning the interpretive parameters of South Korea's cinematic war narratives, which isolate the military conflict of the Korean War (1950–53, in its conventional periodization...
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positions 11626817.
Published: 27 February 2025
...Zachary Samuel Gottesman Abstract Wonderful Days (2003) was supposed to be the global breakthrough of Korean animation. After decades of government neglect and labor-intensive outsourcing work, the film aspired to show the world Korea's new technical prowess in animation, combining 2-D, 3-D...
View articletitled, The Last <span class="search-highlight">Korean</span> Animation: Wonderful Days and the Aesthetics of Global Monopoly Capitalism
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Journal Article
positions (2023) 31 (1): 229–254.
Published: 01 February 2023
... of reference to Jeon Soo‐il's A Korean in Paris (2015), in which the possibility of formless subjectivity becomes disavowed within a paranoid vision of the new Korean woman as a fraud. In all of these films, the misogynist tendencies within contemporary Korean society are specifically displaced onto...
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View articletitled, Paris in <span class="search-highlight">Korean</span> Cinema: Fraudulence and the Female Form in Hong Sang-soo's Night and Day and Kim Ki-duk's Wild Animals
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Journal Article
positions (2024) 32 (3): 685–711.
Published: 01 August 2024
...: they are inclusively excluded from a door of the law that would lead to justice. Korean cinema showcases the film's capacity to pose ethical inquiries and provoke interrogations of society's most pressing concerns. As a testament to the symbiotic relationship between biopolitics, neoliberal logics...
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positions (2008) 16 (3): 661–688.
Published: 01 August 2008
... of the mod-
ern state’s biopolitical management.
To elaborate on this position, I examine the triangulation of nation, sub-
ject, and death in the context of Korean-style blockbuster films. So-yo˘ng
Kim defines these spectacle...
Journal Article
positions (2001) 9 (2): 449–466.
Published: 01 May 2001
... gained increased visibility in contemporary Korean
films. Single, successful women are treated as icons of Korean moderniza-
tion, and this is certainly true in 301/302, in which there is little hesitation in
reiterating the association between...
Journal Article
positions (2023) 31 (4): 919–921.
Published: 01 November 2023
...-reflexive critique of information-oriented archival approaches to film materials and expanding the project onto a methodological exploration. He has published essays in the Journal of Asian Studies , Journal of Korean Studies , Inter-Asian Cultural Studies , and several other journals in Korean. He...
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positions (2020) 28 (3): 631–657.
Published: 01 August 2020
... before China’s Reform and Opening-up Policy: Focusing on China’s North Korean Film Imports in the 1950s–70s”) . Tongbang hakji 東方 學志 (Journal of Asian Studies) 177 : 335 – 66 . Johnson Oliver . 2011 . “ The Stalin Prize and the Soviet Artist: Status Symbol or Stigma? ” Slavic Review 70...
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positions (2022) 30 (4): 815–838.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Eun Ah Cho Abstract This article examines the humanistic relationship between Korean Chinese and North Korean refugees on the Sino–North Korean border in Zhang Lu's film Dooman River (2010) and delineates how the ethical obligation to “our” people, or brethren ( dongpo ), is removed...
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View articletitled, Familiar Strangers: North <span class="search-highlight">Koreans</span> as “Dangerous Refugees” and the Crisis of <span class="search-highlight">Korean</span> Chinese Community in Zhang Lu's Dooman River (2010)
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Journal Article
positions (2009) 17 (3): 713–740.
Published: 01 August 2009
... the deployment of these models as a primary means of conceptualizing modern Korean history. The article reads the film's protagonist, O Dae-su, as an embodiment of the anxieties and vexations of the salary men working for the chaebôls at a time of economic collapse. The salary man is a pivotal figure not only...
Journal Article
positions (2018) 26 (4): 647–685.
Published: 01 November 2018
... chisik suyong kwa kungminkukka kusang” (Korean Students in America’s Adoption of Modern Knowledge and Conceptualizations of the Nation-State under Japanese Colonial Rule”) . Han’guk kŭnhyŏndaesa yŏn’gu 34 : 121 – 56 . Chang Sŏng’uk . 1928 . “Miguk yŏnghwagye” (“The World of American Film...
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positions (2011) 19 (1): 159–191.
Published: 01 February 2011
... examine representations of the “ideal female body” in North Korean
fashion in a variety of visual media, including stage productions, films, mag-
azine illustrations, paintings, and posters. I interrogate the process by which
the North Korean...
View articletitled, Dressed to Kill: Women's Fashion and Body Politics in North <span class="search-highlight">Korean</span> Visual Media (1960s – 1970s)
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Journal Article
positions (2023) 31 (3): 531–539.
Published: 01 August 2023
... Korean film Address Unknown (수취인 불명) directed by Kim Ki-duk. In it, Eun-ok stabs herself in the eye, rejecting the sight given to her through her relations with a Korea-stationed US soldier in a quid pro quo exchange of sex for surgery. Like Oedipus self-castrating as punishment for fornicating...
Journal Article
positions (2015) 23 (4): 807–835.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Jodi Kim Through an analysis of two recent films, Deann Borshay Liem's In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee (2010) and Jane Jin Kaisen's The Woman, the Orphan, and the Tiger (2010), this essay argues that Korean transnational adoption is constituted by militarized and gendered diasporas that mark...
View articletitled, “The Ending Is Not an Ending At All”: On the Militarized and Gendered Diasporas of <span class="search-highlight">Korean</span> Transnational Adoption and the <span class="search-highlight">Korean</span> War
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positions (2023) 31 (4): 803–838.
Published: 01 November 2023
...”). Munhak kwa yŏngsang 문학과 영상 ( Journal of Literature and Film ) 21 , no. 3 : 679 – 709 . Kim Jihoon . 2020 . “ The Uses of Found Footage and the ‘Archival Turn’ of Recent Korean Documentary .” Third Text 34 , no. 2 : 231 – 54 . Kim Pong-su . 2018 . “ Il kŭgu seryŏk e hyŏppak...
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positions (2018) 26 (4): 719–747.
Published: 01 November 2018
... in most Western markets, echoes Derrida’s theorization of the term monster as a sign that ambiguously evokes a “monstrous we,” a monstrous humanity. The two-syllable word goe (괴)- mul (물) in Korean literally means a “grotesque creature or object” and refers in the film to a dangerous entity...
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positions (2011) 19 (1): 109–131.
Published: 01 February 2011
... of this scene and considers that it is here, at this moment, that
Koreans become “natives” (w o˘ n j u m i n ). The text unpacks the visual regime
of the film, the process through which moviegoers in Seoul identify with the
white U.S. imaginary...
Journal Article
positions (2014) 22 (1): 7–39.
Published: 01 February 2014
...” of sexuality and gender. Kino
the Korean film magazine calls her a ssikssikan“ female soldier.”12 Ssikssikan
is a Korean adjective that denotes courage, strength, and resilience and is
understood to indicate a masculine virtue. In everyday speech...
Journal Article
positions (2022) 30 (1): 189–216.
Published: 01 February 2022
... : Association of Korean Independent Film and Video . Kim Heejin . 2018 . “ Appreciating Im Heung-soon .” In Im Heung-soon: Toward a Poetics of Opacity and Hauntology , edited by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art . 315 – 69 . Seoul, South Korea : National Museum of Modern...
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View articletitled, The Audiovisual Turn of Recent <span class="search-highlight">Korean</span> Documentary Cinema: The Time-Image, Place, and Landscape
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