Korean Film and History

Hyunseon Lee is a London-based film, media and cultural scholar. She is Privatdozentin at the Department of German (teaching in literature, culture and media) at Siegen University and Professorial Research Associate at the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, and Centre for Creative Industries, Media and Screen Studies, SOAS, University of London. She is also Professional Researcher of the Institute of Humanities at Yonsei University in Seoul. Her publications include books and articles on film, popular culture, gender, German literature and media aesthetics from a comparative intermedial perspective. Her recent book is Korean Film and Festivals: Global Transcultural Flows (Routledge, 2022), which she edited alone. She currently researches war, gender and memory with a focus on K-culture and Korean Peninsula cinema.

1. Cinematic Battlefield of Memory, Imagination, and Narrative of the Past: A Preface to Korean Film and History PART I: Issues, Positions, and Approaches to Historical Memory 2. Making Nations: Film Propaganda in Colonial Korea and Nazi Germany 3. Could History Films be Rivals of Historians? Historical Criticism Through History Films in Korean Cinema 4. Writing a History through Cinema: A Focus on Two “Comfort Women” Films PART II: Korean Cinema and the Colonial Period 5. “Become a Soldier”: Korean Women in Late Colonial Propaganda Films 6. Hyŏnhaet'an, Mon Amour: Colonial Memories and (In)visible Japan in 1960s South Korean Cinema 7. Screening Collaboration: Rescuing Pro-Japanese Koreans from Colonial Illusions PART III: How to Remember the Korean War, Its Origin and Aftermath 8. Haunting Returns to the (Diasporic) Filmscape: Transgenerational and Transnational Testimony in Reiterations of Dissent 9. Korean War Films: Generational Memory of North Korean Partisans, Soldiers, Brothers, and Women 10. Between Protector and Oppressor: Representation of the United States Forces Korea in Korean Cinema PART IV: Archiving Contact Zones 11. The Agonistics on the Borders in-between Two Koreas: The Politics of Cinematic Representations in Documentary Films on Borders since 2018 12. Walk into a History with Kim Hong-joon. An Interview