Global Korean Cinema

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

From Bora Kim’s House of Hummingbird to Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice, Korean cinema is a contemporary cultural force that circulates in and beyond Korea. This course examines how Korean cinema is globally inflected in its content, production, and reception. We will explore independent and blockbuster films by Korean filmmakers from the 1950s to the present day that encompass melodrama, auteur cinema, comedy, science fiction, documentary films, historical dramas, and more. We will engage scholarship from fields such as cultural studies, cinema and media studies, performance studies, and gender and sexuality studies. All course materials are in English and no knowledge of Korean is required. This course fulfills the literature and culture requirement for the Korean minor.