Transnational Cooperation of North Korean Cinema in East Asia and Europe, Contemporary Challenges of Infrastructure, Industry, and Innovation in East Asia, The Rise of Korean Independent Film and the Documentary Movement in the 1980s, Post-national Korean Cinema: North and South in Transition -Platforms, Circulation, and Affective Regimes, Representation of Koreans in Films by Nagisa Oshima, Minor Documentary Pioneers in Colonial Asia, Digital turn and Classical Korean texts, Modernization in Linguistics in East Asian Context, Visualizing Power: Filming the Landscapes of Control in East Asia, Nationalism and the Languages of Koreans in Japan, Labour Rights Movement in Korea through Melting Icecream < >, Zainichi Koreans in Japan through the film Yakiniku ToRaJi < >, The Diverse Social Representation and Acceptance of LGBTQ+ Minorities in Korea: Movements, Attitudes and Media Representation, North Korea in the late 1990s: The Interplay between Documentary and Fiction in the Years of the Arduous March, Exploration of the Eternal Absolute Truth, Transnational Romance Portrayal in a Czech-Chinese Collaborative Visual Context, Grotesque, Carnivalesque Capitalism in the Films Aachi & Ssipak (2006) by Jo Beom-jin and Castaway on the Moon (2009) by Lee Hae-jun, A New Community Beyond the Nation State
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This course aims to equip students with the tools to critically analyze documentary film genre from the East Asian regin, with a special focus on the two Koreas. Students will learn how documentary film reflects and shapes political, historical, and cultural realities, including democratization, activism, and minority experiences. By engaging with key films and scholarship, students will develop the ability to: - Identify and explain the distinctive features of East Asian documentary, with a special ficus on South and North Korean documentary practices. - Analyze how documentaries represent activism, ideology, and marginalized communities. - Compare documentary traditions across Korea, Japan, and China. - Understand the broader socio-political role of documentary film in divided societies.
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