Korean Screen Culture Conference 2023 Panels & Presentations
Panel 1: DPRK Cinema through Different Lenses
Jasmine Barrett (University of Melbourne) - ‘Representations of Disability in DPRK Film’
Martin Weiser (FU Berlin) - ‘North Korea’s Experiment in Replacing Purged Actors in Existing Movies'
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Rose Adams (Stanford University) - ‘Household Heroes: New Generation Heroines and the Collapse of the “Private” in Post-Famine Film’
Gabor Sebo (SNU) - ‘Not that Bright Socialist Fellowship: The Cinematic Collaboration of China and North Korea’
Alexandra Leonzini (Cambridge University) - ‘Music and Song in North Korean Cinema’
Panel 2: The Family Across Borders in South Korean Screen Culture
Marc Yi Fei Yeo (NUS) - ‘Imagined reunions, memory, resignation, and muted recollections: A visual and discourse analysis of multivoiced trauma narratives and identities in South Korean divided families’ (isangajok) video messages.’
Lucía Rud (UBA-CONICET) - ‘On Koreanness and the limits of the National Cinema. Transnational Korean Adoptees in Cinema’
Panel 3: Screen Culture and Gender
Molly Kim (Hanyang University) - ‘Yim Soon Rye and Korean Women filmmakers’
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Sarah Molisso (City, University of London) - 'Feminist Instatoons in South Korea’ [Best Paper Award Winner]
Andrew David Jackson (Monash University) - ‘Women’s participation in the 1990’s cinephilia and art houses’
Panel 4: (Mis) Representing Queerness. LGBTQ+ issues and Korean Screen Culture
Tom Baudinette (Macquarie University) - ‘Unpacking LGBTQ+ Belonging in South Korean Screen Culture: The Transnational Case of the “Boys Love” Web Series Semantic Error (2022)
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Youme Kim (Yonsei University) - ‘The Representation of Homosexuality in Korean Popular Culture: Focusing on a Korean Boys Love (BL) web-novel Semantic Errors and its webtoonization’
Awantika Prerna Toppo (Jawaharlal Nehru University) - ‘A study on Queer Status in India- Korea through Movie: Focusing on Korea’s “Take me home (담쟁이)” and India’s ‘Badhai Do” Movie’
Panel 5: Language, language learning in Korean Screen Culture
Lucien Brown & Soyeon Kim (Monash University) - “I’ve never heard such elegant swearing”: Differential audience reactions to swearing in Korean online video content.
Mohd Bilal (Jawaharlal Nehru University) - ‘Screen to Speech: Decoding K-Dramas' Influence on Language Learning in India’
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Panel 6: (Re)imagining Masculinity for the Small Screen: Male Beauty Aesthetics in Korean Historical TV Dramas
Jo Elfving-Hwang (Curtin University)
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Panel 7: Reframing Korean Screen Culture: Recent Changes in Social, Gender, and Industrial Landscape
Tian Li (Yale University) - ‘Media-ted Justice, Law, and Ethics in The Devil Judge’
Sung-ae Lee (Macquarie University) - ‘Netflix and the Changing Contexts of Korean TV Drama’.
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Eun Ah Cho (University of Sydney) - 'Actresses as Aging Bodies: Gendered Structure and Discourse of South Korean Actresses – A Focus on Youn Yuh-Jung'
Panel 8: K-drama and Netflix
Sarah Keith (Macquarie University) - ‘Desirability versus reality: Overseas working holidays in Busan Boys: Sydney Bound’.
Jennifer Kang (QUT) - ‘Romance dramas beyond the Korean Wave: Focusing on Korean trendy dramas in the 1990s’.
Sun Hee Lee (Gustavus Adolphus College) - ‘K-Drama and Global Media’s Influence on U.S. Multicultural Representation: The Case of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko and Apple TV+’s Television Adaptation’
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Chung Hye Seung (Colorado State University) - ‘From Okja to Squid Game: The Netflixization of New Korean Media’
Panel 9: South Korean film and film and history
Yoojin Kim (Kingston University) - ‘Korean Cinema as the Hub of Memoirs: How did A Taxi Driver break the isolation of Gwangju from May 1980 to the present day?’
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Caleb Kelso Marsh (UWA) - ‘Korean Noir: The Dark Side of Compressed Modernity’
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Andy Lee (Pittsburgh University) - ‘Precarious Heterotopia of Horror’
Roman Kusaiko (Lingnan University) - ‘Juror 8: Remaking and Cultural Appropriation of the Western Judicial Traditions’
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Panel 10: K-pop and Hallyu
Yeogeun Kim (Kyungpook University) - ‘Pedagogic Implications from Korean ness to K ness in the global reception of K pop music videos'
Colette Balmain (Kingston University) - ‘K-Pop as the Dream Academy: the power and politics of recolonisation as seen in the tv series, The Idol (HBO, 2023) and the single “K-Pop” (Travis Scott, The Weekend and Bad Bunny, July 2023).’
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Joori Byun (LSE) ‘Hallyu-cination: Towards an Ethical-Critical Approach of Theorising the Korean Cultural Wave’
Kathryn Philips (Macquarie University) - ‘From Screen to Stage: K-pop Cover Dance Within the Sydney Cityscape’
Panel 11: South Korean film and art film
Spencer Hines (University of Melbourne) - 'Reflections of creative practice in the contemporary films of Hong Sang-soo' [Best Paper Award Winner]
Panel 12: Games and Video hosting services
William Dunkel (UC Irvine) - ‘Sushi Environmentalism and Dave the Diver’
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Viktoria Luise Döberl (Vienna) - ‘Saranghae, Minnie! Interdependencies of Western Vision and South Korean Sound on TIKTOK. A Showcase on How South Korea Has Secured Its Position Within a Hypercultural, Collective Understanding of a Global Audience.’