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”

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

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@gmail.com