...Jihoon Kim Abstract This article discusses several documentary films since the 2010s that portray the place and the landscape related to Korea's social reality or a personal or collective memory of its past, classifying their common trope as the “audiovisual turn.” The trope refers to the uses...

... in the reform period that the understanding of same-sex behavior as a medical condition resurfaced and its consequent criminalization took place; then the repression of homosexuality took a more distinctly legal and perhaps tragically harsher character. In “The Audiovisual Turn of Recent Korean Documentary...

..., . . . are in themselves, insuf cient to the building of a coherent discursive methodology (Druck- rey 2008: ix). If postcolonialism mitigates the problem of technological determinism, media archaeology in turn variegates the former s reliance on textual analy- sis and certain strains of humanism.4 The electromagnetic...

... of a circuit. By exploring how the interlocking of virtuality and actuality comes to bear on the legal sphere, this article poses fundamental questions for cinema, or for audiovisual media in general, such as to what extent cinematic critique is capable of opening an alternative space for social justice...

... and the beginning of the I~~OS,among thousands and tens of thousands of publications and audiovisual products, the most sustained of hot topics among hot topics was the book by Quan Yanchi titled Zou xia shentan de Ma0 Zedong [Mao Zedong off...

... social promise within the seemingly inescapable conditions of advanced capitalism. However corrupted they may be, the productive social actions colloquially called “work” give visible form to individual and collective life, integrating human rhythms into larger scales of subjective relations that in turn...

... was the cinematographer working with Hatfield, who, in turn, left some photos depicting “comfort women.” Working from this information, I started searching for film materials either shot by Fay or shot in the relevant regions, such as Tengchung, Songshan, and Lungling in China; and Myitkyina in Burma. I viewed over...

... the visible and the invisible entails political consequences; such intervention would in turn make Zhao's works not merely unseen but, more importantly, unsearchable in Chinese mainstream media. Officially banning a film paradoxically increases its circulation, while filtering its indexes through search...

... ). And this movement is end-oriented. As long as the “real murderer” is caught, as long as political stability and economic growth are maintained, the means need no further justification. It is far harder to preserve the film's ambivalence. Yet in the way it self-reflexively questions the audiovisual, as shown...

... received much critical attention since star studies took a sociopolitical turn and thus came to recognize the ideological manufacture of the sexual, gender, class, and racial rami ca- tions of the star text.1 My goal here is to study exactly how...

... the heterogeneous nature of this concept.' Whereas transnationalism turns the phenomena into a set of practices that signify a movement,* transnational practices suggests heterogeneity and difference,3 and transnationalities can be understood...

... specificity of cinema, as an audiovisual form and apparatus whose status has been caught between that of an art object and that of a commer- cial industry. As the trope of prem nagar moved out from the domain of the sung poetry attributed to premodern...

...- cies of a fascist cultural dictatorship.”11 These pioneering works, however, offer little analysis of the film texts, reducing their complexity as audiovisual artifacts to plot synopses and information on personnel, policies, and orga...

... made a number of impressive shorts — especially Arrival (1980) (figs. 3 – 4), positions 25:1  February 2017 32 a twenty-­minute study of laborers that, through dense audiovisual mon- tage, demonstrates the system...

... good, I’ll turn on the machine; it’s a good camera, silent, so everybody acts very naturally and I get the master shot. If this works, then I’ll choose a second take, with everybody in it, and I’ll move in closer. This is tricky, because many...

... integral in its substantiation. By marking the pathing of sexuality in this most recent capitalist subdevelopment, the conditions of the vaginal econ- omy are foregrounded, laying bare the matrix of power of global capital, which in turn, makes...

... the structural problems of gender inequality. Next, I turn to image-based advertisements crowding the urban public spaces that are part and parcel of the loud visibility politics of the plastic surgery industry. The 2000s witnessed a large number of plastic surgery advertisements explode...

... of a computer program (of Mario) from the tapes that Mario has left behind. Mario is thereby reincarnated into an interactive audiovisual machine by which he, after a fashion, lives on. In the 1980s, transmigration of the sort crafted by Mishima in his...

... live in the condition of being separated from oneself? Separation turns into national obsession: war as theme park; adoptee as stock character who makes everyone cry when the sad music comes on; hokey movies about the destruction...

... a new China. During the Maoist Cultural Revolution, the humbling experience of learn- ing from and in the midst of the people turned into a coerced reeducation of intellectuals. The campaign of coerced reeducation can be read...