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[Jonathan M Hall]

Dear KineJapanners,

Given its emphasis on the transnational, I thought KineJapanners might be
interested in this symposium on Korean cinema to be held at UC Irvine this
Thursday.  Irvine just finished its two-week annual Vietnamese Film
Festival.

Yours,
Jonathan


Trajectories of Korean Cinema Studies

2:30-7:00
Thursday April 21, 2005
HIB 135

Korean cinema has become in the past decade one of the most vibrant and
successful industries in world cinema. This one-day workshop will feature
leading young specialists in the field who will explore various aspects
and trajectories of its study.

Panel 1 - 2:30 pm

Eunsun Cho (PhD Candidate, University of Southern California)
"Transnational Hybrid in Korean National Cinema: Korean Cinema of the 60s
and Italian Neo-Realism"

Jinsoo An (Postdoctoral Fellow, New York University)
"Dangerous Liaisons: Inter-ethnic Romance in South Korean Cinema"

Hye Seung Chung (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
"The Untranslatables: Cultural Specificity in Transnational Korean Cinema"

Panel 2 – 4:30 pm

Hyungsook Lee (PhD Candidate, University of Southern California)
"Old Boy and the Burden of Transnational Asian Film"

Yung Bin Kwak (PhD Candidate, University of Iowa)
"After Politics Revolution! (Yet With/As a Vengeance)": On Sympathy for
Mr. Vengeance

Reception - 6:00 pm HIB 137

The workshop will be followed by a screening of E J-yong‚s Untold
Scandal, director in attendance.

Thanks to the generous support of:
        Humanities Center
        Film and Video Center
        Center for Asian Studies
        Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures

For more information visit the website at
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/fvc/trajectories or contact Steven Chung at
sychung at uci.edu