In this talk, Dr Peter Sloane will guide you through the History of Korean cinema. We will start with its origins post war, and travel through the golden years post 1955. Dr Sloane will do a deep dive into the often explored themes such as the beauty of violence and revenge alongside the ongoing interrogation of worldwide US interventions.
No talk on Korean cinema would be complete without discussing the recent works of Bong Joon-ho & Park Chan-wook. They, alongside the other modern greats of modern Korean Cinema, will be discussed.
Dr Peter Sloane is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Film at the University of Buckingham. He has published widely on film and fiction, including the monographs David Foster Wallace and the Body (Routledge, 2019), Kazuo Ishiguro’s Gestural Poetics (Bloomsbury, 2021), and edited collections Kazuo Ishiguro: 21 st Century Perspectives (Manchester University Press, 2023) and ReFocus: The Films of Claire Denis (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). He works closely on the intersections of film and text, and on the postmodern.