[KS] Distinguished Lecture Series: Activism and Post-activism: Korean Documentary Cinema, 1981-2022

[Charlotte Hammond]

Dear all,

You are warmly invited to the following Distinguished Lecture Series held
by Scottish Centre for Korean Studies on Tuesday 18th June at 2:30pm.


*Scottish Centre for Korean Studies*
* Distinguished Lecture Series*

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Activism and Post-activism: Korean Documentary Cinema, 1981-2022

Jihoon Kim
(Chung-ang University)

*Tuesday 18th June*
*1430 – 1630*
*G.03, 50 George Square*

*Abstract: *This talk presents an overview of my *Activism and
Post-activism: Korean Documentary Cinema: 1981-2022 *(Oxford University
Press, 2024), the first-ever English-language monograph on the South Korean
nonfiction film and video practices in the nongovernmental and noncorporate
sectors from their foundational period (early 1980s) to the present. Making
the tripartite connections between the socio-political history of South
Korea (from the 1980s mass anti-dictatorship movement to
twenty-first-century labor issues, Truth and Reconciliation, feminism, LGBT
rights, environmental justice, and key events such as the Sewol Ferry
disaster and the Candlelight Protests), documentary's aesthetics and
politics, and the shifting institutional and technological evolution of
documentary production and distribution, I argue that what is unique and
particular about this forty-year history of South Korean documentary cinema
is the intensive and compressed coevolution of activism (which includes
social change documentaries aimed to engage social movements in the forms
of alternative nonfiction media practice) and post-activism (a set of
twenty-first-century documentaries whose formal and aesthetic
experimentations gesture toward overcoming and renewing the activist
tradition).

*Bio: Jihoon Kim* is Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at Chung-ang
University. His second book, *Documentary’s Expanded Fields: New Media and
the Twenty-First-Century Documentary*, was also published by Oxford
University Press in 2022.


The event is free, and registration is not required.
We look forward to seeing some of you there.

Best wishes,
Charlotte Hammond

PhD student in Korean Studies
Administrative Assistant, Scottish Centre for Korean Studies, University of
Edinburgh
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