<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Koreanists, <br></div><div><br></div><div>I would cordially invite you to my Zoom talk scheduled at 4pm(EST) this Friday, held by the Center for Korean Research at Columbia University.</div><div><br></div><div><div><strong><i>Korean Studies University Seminar Online</i></strong></div>
<div><strong>Post-verité Turns: Korean Documentary Cinema in the 21<sup>st</sup> Century</strong><br>
<strong>Ji-hoon Kim, </strong>Associate Professor, Chung-Ang University & Visiting Scholar in the Film in the School of the Arts.</div>
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<p>Moderated by <strong>Jae Won Edward Chung</strong>, Rutgers University<br>
Friday, September 24 @4pm</p><p><em>Co-sponsored by Columbia University Seminar</em></p><p>Registration below:</p><p><a href="https://columbiacuimc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwscu2trDMoHNYwgwFtSzU30cJw5b7LrRYM">https://columbiacuimc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwscu2trDMoHNYwgwFtSzU30cJw5b7LrRYM</a></p><p><br></p></div>
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<div class="gmail-section"><div class="gmail-layoutArea"><p><strong>Abstract<br>
</strong>This talk presents an overview of <em>Post-verité Turns: Korean Documentary Cinema in the 21<sup>st</sup> Century</em>,
the first-ever English-written academic monograph on the South Korean
nonfiction film and video practices by individual filmmakers, artists,
and collectives since the 1980s. More than offering a comprehensive
history of those practices during the last four decades, it offers a
critical mapping of how the formal and aesthetic variations of the
Korean documentary cinema during the last two decades have differed from
and simultaneously renewed the activist, <em>cinéma-vérité </em>tradition
of Korean independent documentaries of the 1980s and 1990s in
conjunction with the transition to the post-authoritarian, post-minjung,
post-IMF, and post-traumatic society. These variations encompass
personal documentaries and essay films, experimental documentaries on
landscapes, documentaries extensively using archival materials,
digitally enabled documentaries, and intersections of documentary and
contemporary art. Mapping these variations onto five categories along
with trends of the activist documentaries reloaded in the 21<sup>st</sup>
century, I use the term ‘post-verité’ to theorize these new
constellations of aesthetics and politics. By departing from the
epistemological and aesthetic assumptions of its predecessor, the Korean
documentary in the twenty-first century has formed the most vibrant
screenscape for cinematic experimentations. At the same time, I argue
that these experimentations have also updated the activist tradition’s
political and ethical commitment to history and politics by reinventing
the ways of engaging with the traumas of modernization and the new
problems of neoliberalized contemporary Korea.</p>
<p><strong>Bio<br>
</strong>Jihoon Kim (<a href="http://chungang.academia.edu/JKIM">chungang.academia.edu/JKIM</a>) is associate professor
of cinema and media studies at Chung-ang University, and currently a
visiting scholar in the Film and Media Studies program at Columbia
University. He is the author of <em>Documentary’s Expanded Fields: New Media and the Twenty-First-Century Documentary</em> (forthcoming in Oxford University Press, Feb 2022) and <em>Between Film, Video, and the Digital: Hybrid Moving Images in the Post-media Age</em>(Bloomsbury, 2018/16). He is also finalizing his third book, <em>Post-verité Turns: Korean Documentary Cinema in the 21st Century</em>.</p><p><br></p><p>----=--<br></p>
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</div></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Jihoon Kim, Ph.D<br><b><i>Documentary's Expanded Fields: New Media and the Twenty-First-Century Documentary </i></b>(Oxford University Press, forthcoming in Feb 2022).</div><div><a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/documentarys-expanded-fields-9780197603826?prevSortField=1&sortField=8&resultsPerPage=20&lang=en&cc=us" target="_blank">https://global.oup.com/academic/product/documentarys-expanded-fields-9780197603826?prevSortField=1&sortField=8&resultsPerPage=20&lang=en&cc=us</a><br></div><div><b><i>Between Film, Video, and the Digital: Hybrid Moving Images in the Post-media Age</i></b><b> </b>(Bloomsbury Academic, 2018/16).<i> </i><br><a href="http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/between-film-video-and-the-digital-9781628922912/" target="_blank">http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/between-film-video-and-the-digital-9781628922912/</a><br clear="all"></div><div><br></div><div>Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Film and Media Studies, Columbia University<br>Associate Professor, Cinema and Media Studies<br>Department of Film Studies<br>Chung-ang University<br></div><div>website: <a href="http://chungang.academia.edu/JKIM" target="_blank">chungang.academia.edu/JKIM</a><br></div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>