A Short History of Korean Cinema

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A Short History of Korean Cinema

• John Goulde
• Sweet Briar College
• July, 2005

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Korean Cinema Abroad

• AmerAsia International Film Video Festival in
  Montreal.
• Annual New York Asian Film Festival
• 60 Years of South Korean Cinema, Lincoln Center,
  2004

• NAATA San Francisco International Asian American
  Film Festival,
• Rediscovered Korean Classics" presented at the
  20th Hong Kong International Film Festival in
  1996.

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Annual Film Festivals In Korea

• The Pusan International Film Festival
• The Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival
• The Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF)
• Indieforum (Korean Independent Film Video
  Makers Forum)

• The Busan Asian Short Film Festival (BASFF)
• The Women's Film Festival in Seoul (WFFIS)
• The Gwangju International Film Festival (GIFF)
• The Seoul Net Film Festival (SeNef)

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Annual Film Festivals In Korea

• The Seoul Independent Film Festival (SIFF)
• The Seoul International Queer Film Video
  Festival
• The Seoul Independent Documentary Film Festival
  (SIDoF)

• Seoul International Cartoon Animation Festival
  (SICAF)
• Mise-en-scene's Genre Film Festival

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Korean Cinema

• Began in 1880s
• -use as documentary
• Elite audience

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1970s

• All eroticism disappears under the Park
  dictatorship

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Local Films vs. Imported Films 1985-2000

• SourceKorean Film Commission

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Sources Cited

• Lee Hyangjin, Contemporary Korean
  Cinema,Manchester University Press, Manchester,
  2000
• Lee Young-il and Choe Young Chol, The History of
  Korean Cinema, Jimoondang Pub. Co, Seoul, 1988,
  1998
• Kim Uchang, Extravagance and Authenticity
  Romantic Love and the Self in Early Modern Korean
  Literature in Korean Literature Its Classical
  Heritage and Modern Breakthroughs, edited by
  Korean National Commission for UNESCO, Hollym
  Corp. Seoul, 2000
• Three Korean Master Filmmakers http//www.cinemath
  eque.bc.ca/archives/korea.html