East Asian popular culture currents and counter-currents, Birkbeck College, 17/18 March 2006 Thanks to Chris Berry (Goldsmiths) and Nicola Liscutin (Birkbeck) for putting together a stimulating day and a half symposium discussing regional popular culture in East Asia. Presentations mainly covered the creative industries in Japan, Korea and Taiwan. The focus on Taiwan was puzzling, … [Read More]
Author: Chris Berry
Collections that include work by Chris Berry
- The Bloomsbury Handbook of North Korean Cinema, Bloomsbury 2025
- Rediscovering Korean Cinema, University of Michigan Press 2019
- Cultural Studies and Cultural Industries in Northeast Asia: What a Difference a Region Makes, Hong Kong University Press 2009
- Seoul Searching: Culture and Identity in Contemporary Korean Cinema, SUNY 2007
- New Korean Cinema, Edinburgh University Press 2005
- The Cinema of Japan and Korea, Wallflower Press 2004
Review: New Korean Cinema (Julian Stringer, Shin Chi-yun)
(Edinburgh UP, 2005) A good selection of articles covering a wide variety of topics. Highly recommended, despite the over-academic language in one or two of the articles. This book’s lively cover, a bracing green colour with a still from Take Care of My Cat, makes it sit well on the bookshelf next to the equally … [Read More]
Conference report: Hallyuwood — Korean Screen Culture Goes Global
I was unable to attend the conference, and I am grateful to Prof Hu Puzhong for this report: The symposium has witnessed a relatively blissful atmosphere probably because the Korean wave and its cultural representation in screen production seem to have become an alternative in a world dominated by the hegemony of Hollywood. Academics from … [Read More]
Conference details: Hallyuwood — Korean Screen Culture
Details of today’s Hallyu conference at the Senate House: Symposium for Screen Studies Hallyuwood: Korean Screen Culture Goes Global Friday, 20 May 2005 Senate House, 10.00‐17.00 “Hallyuwood: Korean Screen Culture Goes Global,” featuring international speakers Professor Koichi Iwabuchi (Waseda University) and Professor Kim Soyoung (Korean National University of Arts), and sponsored by Korean Air and … [Read More]