[KS] CFP: Korean Film Workshop at Berkeley, July 2020

[Jinsoo An]

*Call for Papers:  2020 Korean Film Workshop at **University of California,
Berkeley*

*"Authoritarian Modalities and Film Censorship: South Korean Cinema in the
1970s"*


The Center for Korean Studies at UC Berkeley is pleased to announce a call
for working papers for a one-day Korean film workshop, tentatively
scheduled for mid-July of 2020.  This workshop aims to explore the subject
of film censorship in the 1970s, the decade often considered the abject
nadir of South Korean cinema.  Placed under the grip of Park Chung Hee’s
draconic authoritarian regime and facing volatile changes within the film
and media environment itself (such as the spread of television), South
Korean cinema entered an extended period of decline that lasted until the
1980s.  Yet the 1970s also witnessed the advent of a wide array of unusual
popular films, accompanied by stringent and complex modes of control,
regulation, and constraint by the state apparatus.  The workshop thereby
intends to illuminate the complex relationship between authoritarian
politics and filmmaking practices and aesthetics.  *Papers that draw
extensively on primary sources and archival research are strongly preferred
and will be given priority.*  Papers/abstracts can be submitted in either
Korean or English.





Issues related to the subject of censorship in the 1970s Korean cinema
include (but are not limited to):



·      The authoritarian logic (and its limits) behind the regulation of
film contents

·      Film censorship organizations and their interactions with filmmaking
personnel and other state apparatuses in their efforts to make film popular
and politically legitimate

·      Controversial issues, subjects, and topics and their
representational constraints

·      Film production companies’ responses to censorial pressure

·      Evolution of film policy and regulations and their implications with
regard to filmmaking

·      Question of film authorship under strict film regulation and
restrictions

·      Question of “taste” including “vulgarity” [chŏjil], particularly the
representation of sex(uality) and extreme violence and their parameters
under censorship, and “nation-lessness” [mukukchŏksŏng], along with how
such representations complicate the boundaries between “low” and “high”
taste

·      Film censorship and cinematic affect

·      Controversial and overlooked individual cases and their industrial
impact

·      Contemporaneous critical discourse of popular culture/film and
censorship practices

·      The historical background that gave rise to the 1970s film
censorship system, as well as its lingering aftereffects

·      Modus operandi of censorship regarding foreign and/or co-produced
films

·      Social interest or advocacy groups and film censorship



For those who are interested in presenting a paper, please submit a
250-word abstract and short CV to the email address below by *Feb 1,
2020*.  Authors
of accepted proposals will be notified by *Feb 15, 2020*.  Completed papers
are requested by *June 1, 2020* to provide sufficient time for discussants
to prepare responses.



*anjinsoo at berkeley.edu <anjinsoo at berkeley.edu>*



The Center for Korean Studies will provide roundtrip economy-class airfare,
basic ground transportation, hotel accommodations, and meals during the
workshop for all accepted participants.



*DEADLINES*

*Feb 1, 2020: *Paper proposal (with a short CV)

*Feb 15, 2020:* Notification of acceptances

*June 1, 2020:* Completed papers due

*Mid-July 2020:* Date of workshop
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