[KS] RE: Korean Comfort Women: New Film and Book
Kim, Tschung
tskim at hiu.edu
Fri Feb 11 18:05:41 EST 2000
Dear Ms. Kim-Gibson:
With much interest I have read your announcement. Our Korean Studies Journal
"Acta Koreana" would like to include a reiview of your book "Silence Broken:
Korean Comfort Women" in our upcoming 3rd issue, which is scheduled to be
published in June 2000. Could you please give me the e-mail address of
Mid-Praire Books, so that we can request a review copy.
Tschung-Sun Kim, Ph.D.
Editor
Acta Koreana
Keimyung University
-----Original Message-----
From: DGibson357 at aol.com [mailto:DGibson357 at aol.com]
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 2:40 PM
To: korean-studies at mailbase.ac.uk
Subject: Korean Comfort Women: New Film and Book
I write to announce that I recently produced a film, Silence Broken: Korean
Comfort Women, and published a book with the same title. The film and book
are based upon extensive interviews with former comfort women in Korean,
China and Japan. As a native Korean who lived through the Korean War and
came to this country to pursue graduate studies, I was able to talk
directly,
candidly, and empathetically and they poured our their hearts. The film
which has been screened widely at festivals in the United States and Korea
will be broadcast nationally on PBS on May 18, 2000. It has been described
as "A wrenching and formally inventive work....that crafts a complicated and
impassioned historical documentary through interviews with survivors,
dramatic recreations of their stories and the bald faced denial of many
Japanese leaders and veterans." (Gary Dauphin, The Village Voice) and as a
"huge gift to humanity," (Lawrence Fuchs, Professor of American Civilization
and Politics, Brandeis University.)
The film is available for institutional purchase or rental. Home video
rights are not available until the end of the four year PBS contract period.
There are two versions of the film; 88 minutes and 57 minutes. The longer
version has more dramatization; both present extensive interviews.
The book is essentially in-depth interviews with former comfort women,
focusing not only upon their horrendous wartime experiences but also upon
their lives before and after. There are also chapters providing historical
context.
For additional information, including how to order, please go to my Web
Site:
Twotigers.org.
Dai Sil Kim-Gibson
27 Old Mill Road
New Paltz, NY 12561
914/255-2908
Email: DaiSil at aol.com
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