This lecture, delivered by Seung-Hwan Shin of the Department of English & Film Studies Program, will discuss how the western, which once seemed obsolete, came back to life in Asia today and revived interests in old Asian westerns from the 1960s and 1970s as well. Why? How could the nostalgia for a historically/culturally inexperienced West be widely accepted as intelligible and enjoyable in the East? This discussion aims to elucidate the difference/repetition dynamic at work in their nostalgia for imagined histories.