[KS] The 63rd Yonsei-KF Korean Studies Forum

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The Korean Studies Program and the Institute for Modern Korean Studies at the Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University are pleased to invite you to attend the 63rd Yonsei-KF Korean Studies Forum, which will be held on Tuesday, October 31st at 6:00 PM in Room 702 of New Millennium Hall at Yonsei University. The speaker is Professor Earl Jackson, Jr., American Literature, Korea University and Co-director of Trans-Asia Screen Cultures Institute. The discussant is Silvia Tartarini, Lecturer, Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts. The title of his talk is "Is Gone Better? Existence as Practice and Theory in Korean Cinema."  The abstract of his paper and a brief bio can be found at the end of this email.  
 The presentation will be followed by a dinner reception. I hope you will come to enjoy the presentation, discussion, and reception. Please contact Jennifer Bresnahan at 010-5441-9204, jennifer.bresnahan at gmail.com for further inquiries.  
 
Sincerely,  
Hyuk-Rae Kim
Professor of Korean StudiesDirector, Institute for Modern Korean Studies
GSIS, Yonsei University 
 


    
        
            
            Abstract:A substantial number of Korean films raise questions about the meaning of human life and the meanings of individual human lives. I will explore this tendency not thematically but cinematically. In my readings of two Korean films here, I investigate the politics of cinematic representation in terms of the phenomenological peculiarities of the medium and the ethical contradictions that animate the production, dissemination and reception of films. My point of entry into each film will be a scene in which a subject of the narrative (a character in a fiction film and a “real person” in a documentary) either questions the nature of its existence or negates that existence. My reading protocol includes the triple-register of the on-screen entity and a dual-level of articulation.  I will read the on-screen entity as subject of the narrative, image in the technology of representation, and figure in a dynamic sociosymbolic system. I will distinguish meanings articulated on the level of the narrative from meanings articulated on the level of filmic presentation. While the conventions of dominant cinema usually obscure such divisions, each of the films I discuss here foregrounds the tensions between the represented subject and the system of representation, and illuminates the political stakes therein. 
            
        
    

 

Biography: 
Earl Jackson, Jr. has taught in the East Asian Studies Department of the


University of 

Minnesota , the Literature Department of the

University of

California , Santa Cruz, and was visiting professor in the Cinema Studies Department, the


Korean

National

University of the Arts. He is currently Professor of American Literature,


Korea

University and Co-director of the Trans-Asia Screen Cultures Institute. His works include Strategies of Deviance, Fantastic Living: The Speculative Autobiographies of Samuel R. Delany, and has recently completed a monograph on East-Asian Cinemas.
 

 
 

 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
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