Contemporary Korean Cinema and Society

Course Syllabus 2021 WINTER ABROAD AT YONSEI

CREDIT 3 INSTRUCTOR Dr. Hyunjun Min

OFFICE OFFICE HOURS

TIME Mon-Fri 09:30-12:00 CLASSROOM LOCATION TBA

[COURSE INFORMATION] The turbulent recent history of South Korea has produced a society that is engaged with a variety of local and global social forces in complex and contradictory ways. The sweeping social changes in South Korean society have engaged it in a struggle to redefine and re-examine COURSE DESCRIPTION itself, and its relation to such basic ideas as gender, class, tradition and nation. Contemporary & GOALS films provide an especially interesting entry into these issues and how Koreans have been thinking about them. This course is intended to enhance students` understanding of a variety of historical, social, cultural issues of South Korean society by analyzing relevant contemporary South Korean films.

PREREQUISITE None

It is mandatory that you watch films on your own, if a film is assigned for the class. Films will be available on YSCEC, if they are not available on Youtube, and it is your responsibility to COURSE REQUIREMENTS watch given films before each class begins. Certain screenings in this course may contain material some find offensive. Your enrollment in this course indicates your awareness of this and your willingness to approach these texts in a critical manner.

Attendance and Participation 30% Midterm Exam 30% GRADING POLICY Final Paper 40% Presentation extra

TEXTS & REFERENCES Course Packet

Ph.D. Comparative Literature. University of Maryland at College Park MA. Cinema Studies. City University of New York (CUNY) INSTRUCTOR’S PROFILE MA. Dept. of Aesthetics. Seoul National University BA. Dept. of Aesthetics. Seoul National University Course Syllabus 2021 WINTER ABROAD AT YONSEI

[WEEKLY SCHEDULE] COURSE MATERIAL & WEEK DAILY TOPIC & CONTENTS REFERENCE ASSIGNMENTS Introduction to the course and

policies.

Korean History and Contemporary Shin Jeeyoung, “Globalisation and New Yoon JK, Ode to My Korean Film History overview Korean Cinema” Father (2014)

Kim, Suk-young, “Crossing the Border to Park Chan-wook, JSA 1 National Division the “Other” side” (2000)

Lee Myung-sik, “The democratization Park Kwang-su, A Korean Democratization Part 1 movement in the 1970s” Single Spark (1995) Jang Joon-hwan, Lee Myung-sik, “The democratization Korean Democratization Part 2 1987: When The Day movement in the 1970s” Comes (2017) Kweon Sug-in, “Discourse of Korean Lee Chang-dong, Modernization and Modernity Culture amid the Expansion of Consumer Green Fish (1997) Society and the Global Order” Cho Haejoang, “Living with Conflicting Subjectivity: Mother, Motherly Wife, and Jung, Ji-woo, Happy Gender and Sexuality I Sexy Woman in the Tradition from End (1999) Colonial-Modern to Postmodern Korea” 2 Seungsook Moon, “The Production and Lee Byeong-heon, Gender and Sexuality II Subversion of Hegemonic Masculinity”” Twenty (2015) Woo Moon-gi, The King of Jokgu (2013) Midterm Exam TBA & Jeon Go-woon, Microhabitat (2017)

Cho Eunsun, “Korean Cinema Bids Park Chan-wook, Contemporary Korean Cinema? Farewell to Its Allegorical Legacy” Oldboy (2003) Bong Joon-ho, Christina Klein, “Why American Studies What is Korean Cinema? Memories of Murder Needs to Think about Korean Cinema” (2003)

Hong Sang-soo, Oh! Korean Auteur Cinema I Marc Raymond, “Women Stripped Bare” Soo-jung (2000)

Kim Ki-duk, The Isle 3 Korean Auteur Cinema II Tony Rayns, “Sexual Terrorism” (2000), Spring, Summer… (2003)

Lee Chang-dong, Korean Auteur Cinema III TBA Burning (2018)

Bong Joon-ho, Final Paper Due TBA Parasite (2019)