Course Syllabus

2024 YONSEI INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL

IEE3306-02 Korean Cinema

CREDIT 3 INSTRUCTOR Steve Choe

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TIME Period 3: 13:20-15:00 CLASSROOM LOCATION TBA

E-MAIL stevec32000@gmail.com

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[COURSE INFORMATION]

In this course we will work through the aesthetic and politics of Korean cinema
in order to understand its transformation from a national to a global cinema. By
analyzing individual films, considering historical contexts, and reading texts in
film theory, we will attempt to understand how cinema proposes new ways of
COURSE DESCRIPTION
being and relating to others within the context of a rapidly globalizing Korea.
& GOALS
Issues to be covered include: the ethics of neoliberal capitalism, gender and
Korean film, the spectacle of cinematic violence, morality and film genre, and
the critique of melodrama.

PREREQUISITE

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

Mid-term Exam 50%

Final Exam 50%
GRADING POLICY ---
100%
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2024 YONSEI INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL

Midterm Exam (50%): Students will take the exam in class. Questions will be
based on lectures, readings, and screenings. Test format may include multiple-
choice, True/False questions, and short essays.
Final Exam (50%): The final exam is scheduled for the last day of the class.
Questions will be based on lectures, readings, and screenings. Test format may
include multiple-choice, True/False questions, and short essays.
Attendance: Over seven absences will result in the automatic failure of the
course. If you happen to catch COVID, up to five days of excused absence will
be allowed.

Readings will be available to students electronically.

TEXTS & NOTES

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[WEEKLY SCHEDULE]
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COURSE MATERIAL &

WEEK (PERIOD) WEEKLY TOPIC & CONTENTS NOTES
ASSIGNMENTS
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2024 YONSEI INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL

COURSE MATERIAL &

WEEK (PERIOD) WEEKLY TOPIC & CONTENTS NOTES
ASSIGNMENTS

Andrew Higson, “The Concept of

1 Korean Cinema as National Cinema
National Cinema” and others

Sigmund Freud, “Remembering,

Repeating, and Working
2 Trauma/Memory/History
Through”

Linda Williams, “Melodrama Revised”

3 Melodrama and Korean Film
and others

Jinhee Choi, “Blockbusters, Korean

4 Korean Film in the New Millennium
Style” and others

Nam Lee, “Social Pujoris and the

“Narratives of Failure”:
Transnational Genre and Local
5 Critical Ethics as Politics
Politics in Memories of Murder and
The Host”

Marianne Hirsh, “The Generation of

6 Postmemory and Korean Cinema Postmemory”