The Pleasure of Mourning: Korean War Blockbusters in Post-Cold War South Korea

Subtitle: 
Asia on Screen
Activity Type: 
Film
Presenter: 
We Jung Yi, Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State University
Date: 
Thursday, November 19, 2015 - 15:00
Event Status: 
As Scheduled

WE JUNG YI is Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and Comparative Literature at the Pennsylvania State University. Her book manuscript, entitled Remembering the Unfinished War: Literature, Film, and the Politics of Mourning in South Korea, engages with the cultural turn in Korean literary studies by tracing historical and aesthetic connections among diverse forms of Korean War memories. She is the author of “Between Longing and Belonging: Diasporic Return in Contemporary South Korean Cinema,” collected in Cinematic Homecomings: Exile and Return in Transnational Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2014).

UCIS Unit: 
Asian Studies Center