MCLC: Korean Cinema in Transnational Context--cfps

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: Berry, Chris <chris.berry at kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: Korean Cinema in Transnational Context--cfps
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Korean Cinema in a Transnational Context – Chinese-Korean Connections and
Beyond

When not researched as national cinema, Korean cinema has been most often
studied as South Korean cinema's relation to former colonialist and
contemporary rival Japan or the big Other of Hollywood. But Korean Cinema
in a Transnational Context is multiple and rhizomatic. It is both
North and South Korean, and its connections move in many other
less-explored directions. In this research programme, we open up a more
neglected seam: Korean cinemas, their various Chinese connections, and
beyond along the socialist and post-socialist route into the former Soviet
Union and the new states that have been born from it.

 
Organizing committee:

 
Kim Soyoung (Korean National University of Arts)
Chris Berry (Kings College, London)
Earl Jackson (National Chiao Tung Univ. Co-director of Trans Asia Screen
Culture Institute)
 

Venue: Trans Asia Screen Culture Institute, Seoul, Korea
Dates: Jan 10-12, 2014
           

Project 1: “Sino-Korean Film Connections and Beyond: A History in
Fragments”

 
Chinese-Korean Film Connections have existed since the early days of
cinema. However, they are little known and often overlooked. The
tumultuous and disjunctive history of the twentieth century has made it
impossible to subsume these connections into any linear histories of the
development of particular industries. In this transnational framework, we
hope to recover these connections and compose them as a genealogical
history of fragments, marked by disjuncture. Some of the connections we
have in mind include:
 

·         The exhibition of North Korean films in the People's Republic of
China during the Cultural Revolution decade (1966 to 1976)

·         South Korean directors in Hong Kong in the 1960s and 70s, esp.
Cheng Chang-ho/Chung Chang-hwa

·         King Hu's use of Korean locations to stand in for ancient China

·         Chinese-Koreans, Yanbian, and Koreans from the former Soviet
republics in contemporary Korean cinema

·         K-dramas' popularity in Chinese-speaking territories over the
last decade

·         The Korean filmmaking exile community in Shanghai in the 1930s,
including leading male star Jin Yan/Kim Yom

·         Bruce Lee as a generative force in Korean action cinema.

·         Hong Kong noir's impact on the formation of Korean noir in the
1990s

·         Koreans working in the Man'ei Studio in Manchukuo in the 1930s

·         Zhao Liang's documentaries on the North Korean-Chinese border

·         The opening of Lou  Ye's Summer Palace on the Tumen/Dooman River

·         Co-productions (historical and recent): Hong Kong, China,
Taiwan, South Korean, North Korea, and the former Soviet Union and
successor states

·         Man'ei's connection to North Korean film production

·         PRC-North Korea co-productions in th 1950s and 60s

·         Ri Koran/Li Xianglan/Yamaguchi Yoshiko/Shirley Yamaguchi/Okada
Yoshiko acting in a film made in Korea, as well asSayon's Bell (Taiwan)
and Eternal Fame (Shanghai)

·         The finding of “lost” Korean films in Chinese film archives and
Mosfilm archives

·         The televising foreign films in North Korean, including Chinese
Films

·         The role of Koreans in Shanghai-Man'ei connections

·         The popularity of South Korean melodrama films in 1960s Taiwan

·         North Korean-Chinese animation co-productions

·         Depictions of the Korean War in PRC films
 

We seek to build an online archive of fragments and to produce a volume of
scholarship on this topic. Are you aware of traces of these and other
fragments? Would you like to tell us about them, or to send us PDFs and
photographs of material to be shared with other academics? We will build
an online archive to house these materials.

 
Please contact us at: transarchive2014 at gmail.com
 
Are you writing on one of these topics? Would you like to give a paper and
contribute to an edited volume? We plan to hold a conference on this topic
in January 2014, and then edit a book or a special issue of a journal
based on the papers. Please send us your title and a 250-word abstract by
30 September to: transarchive2014 at gmail.com
 

Project 2: “Zhang Lu—Nomad Cinema of China and Korea”
 

Born in China of Korean parents, Zhang Lu has made films in
Beijing (Tang Poetry); North China (Grain in Ear); Mongolia (Hyazgar,
a.k.a.Desert Dream); Iksan (Iri,South Korea); Chongqing; on the
Chinese-North Korean border (Dooman River; Ansan and Garipong (Landscape);
and Kyongju. Over a decade of nomadic filmmaking, he has established
himself as an auteur of minor transnationalism. He himself considers his
practice to be “internationalist.” To mark his achievement, we plan a
conference in Seoul in early January 2014, followed by either a book or a
special issue of a journal. If you are interested in taking part in this
project, please send us the proposed title of your paper and a 250-word
abstract by 30 September to: transcinema2014 at gmail.com

 
Chris Berry and Kim Soyoung
 
 
 

Professor Chris Berry
Dept. of Film Studies
King's College London
Strand, London
WC2R 2LS
UK
44-(0)207-848-1158