Journal of Korean Studies, Vol. 16, N. 2 (Fall 2011)

Thematic Issue: Unsettling the National in Korean Cinema

Guest Editor: JungBong Choi

Note from the Editors / Clark W. Sorensen, Donald Baker, Chiho Sawada, Tracy L. Stober, Joshua Van Lieu

Introduction / JungBong Choi

Articles

National Cinema: An Anachronistic Delirium? / JungBong Choi

Visibility, Nationality, Archive / Steven Chung

The Power of Representation: Korean Movie Narrators and Authority / Roald Maliangkay

The Transnational Constitution of Im Kwon-Taek’s Minjok Cinema in Chokpo, Sŏp’yŏnje, and Ch’wihwasŏn / Kyung Hyun Kim

Restoring the Transnational from the Abyss of Ethnonational Film Historiography: The Case of Chung Chang Wha / Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park

Cartography of Catastrophe: Pre-Colonial Surveys, Post-Colonial Vampires, and the Plight of Korean Modernity /Soyoung Kim

Book Reviews

Gender and Mission Encounters in Korea: New Women, Old Ways (review) / Su Yun Kim

Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945 (review) / Michael Kim

Witness to Transformation: Refugee Insights into North Korea (review) / Ivo Plsek

Inside the Red Box: North Korea’s Post-totalitarian Politics, and: The Hidden People of North Korea: Everyday Life in the Hermit Kingdom (review) / Scott Thomas Bruce

Horror to the Extreme: Changing Boundaries in Asian Cinema (review) / Kyu Hyun Kim