<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail-x1e56ztr"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj"><span><span><span>Dear Koreanists (Apologies</span></span></span><span><span> for cross-posting), <br></span></span></div><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj"><span><span><br></span></span></div><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj"><span><span>I'd like to announce the publication of my third book, <i><b>Activism and Post-activism: Korean Documentary Cinema, 1981-2022</b> </i>(Oxford University Press, Feb 2024). Having spent more than six years working on the project and seeking its publisher, I manage to give birth to <b>the first-ever English-language monograph </b>on the history and political-aesthetic tendencies of South Korean nonfiction films and videos in nongovernmental, noncorporate sectors, which have developed in close dialogue with South Korea's sociopolitical, economic, anc cultural shifts since the early 1980s. <br></span></span></div><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj"><span><span><br></span></span></div></div><div class="gmail-x1e56ztr"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj"><span><span>
</span></span><span class="gmail-x1fey0fg"><span><span><a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/activism-and-post-activism-9780197760413?cc=kr&lang=en">https://global.oup.com/academic/product/activism-and-post-activism-9780197760413?cc=kr&lang=en</a></span></span></span><span><span> 

</span></span></div></div><div class="gmail-x1e56ztr"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj"><span><span><br></span></span></div><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj"><span><span>I hope that this book will be used for various readers, not only scholars and students committed to documentary studies, Korean studies, and/or Korean/East Asian film and media studies, but also people from different disciplines (political science, anthropology, history, gender/sexuality studies, urban studies, environmental humanities, trauma/violence studies, etc.) who seek audiovisual materials in relation to their teaching of the modern and contemporary Korean society and its history.   For the book's intro and flyer (including a discount code for its purchase via OUP website), please visit the link below: <br></span></span></div><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj"><br></div><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj"><span class="gmail-x1fey0fg"><span><span><a href="https://www.academia.edu/114052680/Activism_and_Post_activism_Korean_Documentary_Cinema_1981_2022_ToC_intro_and_a_discount_code_">https://www.academia.edu/114052680/Activism_and_Post_activism_Korean_Documentary_Cinema_1981_2022_ToC_intro_and_a_discount_code_</a></span></span></span><span><span> 

</span></span></div></div><div class="gmail-x1e56ztr"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj"><span><span><br></span></span></div><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj"><span><span>Also, for any queries on hosting invited talks and screenings related to the book, as well as writing a review for a journal, please contact me via <a href="mailto:jihoonfelix@gmail.com">jihoonfelix@gmail.com</a></span></span></div><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj"><span><span><br></span></span></div><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj"><span><span>Best Regards,</span></span></div><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj"><span><span><br></span></span></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 in Cinema and Media Studies<br></div><div><div><b><i>Activism and Post-activism: Korean Documentary Cinema, 1981-2022 </i></b>(Oxford University Press, 2024).</div><div><a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/activism-and-post-activism-9780197760413" target="_blank">https://global.oup.com/academic/product/activism-and-post-activism-9780197760413</a><br></div></div><div><b><i>Documentary's Expanded Fields: New Media and the Twenty-First-Century Documentary </i></b>(Oxford University Press, 2022).</div><div><a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/documentarys-expanded-fields-9780197603819" target="_blank">https://global.oup.com/academic/product/documentarys-expanded-fields-9780197603819</a></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>Professor of Cinema and Media 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>