The regular series of SOAS seminars was disrupted during 2020. While we look forward to seeing their 2021 programme, it’s great that the Scottish Centre for Korean Studies at the University of Edinburgh has stepped forward with a great series of talks for the first quarter of 2021. Talks are free, and conducted via Zoom. … [Read More]
Author: Kyung Hyun Kim
Selected publications by Kyung Hyun Kim
- Hegemonic Mimicry: Korean Popular Culture of the Twenty-First Century, Duke University Press 2021
- Virtual Hallyu: Korean Cinema of the Global Era, Duke University Press 2011
- The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema, Duke University Press 2004
Eighteen non-fiction titles we’re hoping to enjoy this year [updated]
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Here are some of the books we’re looking forward to in 2021. For the first time in one of these posts we’re flagging the indicative cost of the titles listed here. For me, I have a psychological barrier at around £30: a book has to be offering something pretty special for me to be prepared … [Read More]
Conference news: 5th Korean Screen Culture Conference
The 5th Korean Screen Culture Conference will be held at King College London on 3-4 June. With six sessions each containing two parallel panels there are some tough choices to be made. The provisional programme is shown below – a very full agenda indeed. Updates and further information can be found on the Kings College … [Read More]
Kyung Hyun Kim’s Virtual Hallyu: more approachable than Remasculinization, but still tough going
Kyung Hyun Kim: Virtual Hallyu — Korean Cinema of the Global Era Duke University Press Books, 2011. 280pp On Planet Deleuze, a world in a parallel universe inhabited by hyper-intelligent philosophers, psychoanalysts and cultural studies scholars, Kyung Hyun Kim’s second book on Korean film will be voraciously devoured, as no doubt his previous book was. … [Read More]
A new Kyung Hyun Kim book hits the stores soon
I confess that I didn’t much enjoy Kyung Hyun Kim’s first book – The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema – but I’ll still be getting his new one, Virtual Hallyu – Korean Cinema of the Global Era, which is available from Amazon later this month. [Read More]
Fetishes, Phalluses and Mini-skirts – a review of The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema
Kyung Hyun Kim: The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema Duke University Press, 2004 This book is for a restricted academic readership only. I can empathise with the feeling of inadequacy, crisis and male lack which, according to Kim, plagues the majority of protagonists in Korean film (though there is a difference between me and them, namely … [Read More]