Kelly Y Jeong
Biographic Data
| ID | 4983350 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kelly Y Jeong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kelly Y |
| FAMILY NAME | Jeong |
| SIGNATURE | JEONG K Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Riverside |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3131-2184 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
On the margins
In this paper, I examine Coin-Locker Girl (Chainataun, Han Jun-hee, 2015) and The Villainess (Aknyeo, Jung Byung-gil, 2017), two recent examples of women-centred action genre films through the key concepts of surveillance, usefulness and the Freudian concept of the uncanny, which structure the films’ plot and meaning. In both films, usefulness becomes the reason for the characters’ survival and makes one recognizably human, while being useless ma…
Parameters of Disavowal
Jinsoo An claims in his book Parameters of Disavowal: Colonial Representation in South Korean Cinema that “the visualization of colonial space as the contentious site of both domination and incessant challenges to that domination informs the most enduring postcolonial imaginary of colonialism onscreen” (8). Captured in his brief analysis of the visual facade in Im Kwon-taek’s 1978 film The Genealogy is a critique of the ways in which postcolonial…
Enlightening the Other
The Japanese colonial authorities treated Korean subjects like pupils, and further, like metaphorical children in a number of ways. They attempted to enlighten Korea, and one of the most effective tools of enlightenment for the mostly illiterate colonial population was film. It was a powerful material of propaganda and governing due to its massive popularity since its introduction in the colony. Upon the Korea Film Decree announcement by the Gove…
Towards humanity and redemption
The South Korean director Park Chan-wook's revenge film trilogy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy and Lady Vengeance, presents postmodern films that hearken back to the ancient morality before law with its eye-for-an-eye mentality. At the same time, there are significant revelations in the trilogy about the culture of contemporary South Korea and suggestive illustrations of its globalized, materialistic and metropolitan nature. The journey towa…
Crisis of Gender and the Nation in Korean Literature and Cinema
Crisis of Gender and the Nation in Korean Literature and Cinema is about the changing constructs of modernity, masculinity, and gender relations and discourses in Korean literature and cinema during the crucial decades of the colonial and postcolonial era, based on close historical examination and a wide-ranging theoretical foundation that look at both western and Korean language sources. It examines Korean literary and cinematic texts from the p…
Crisis of Gender and the Nation in Korean Literature and Cinema
Chapter 1 1. Introduction Chapter 2 2. New Woman, Romance, and Railroads: The Paradox of Colonial Modernity Chapter 3 3. Burden of the Past: Confessional Writings in the Space of Decolonization Chapter 4 4. Literature of Instability and Despair: Woman and Masculinity in Postwar Fiction Chapter 5 5. Nation Re-Building and Postwar South Korean Cinema: The Coachman and The Stray Bullet Chapter 6 6. Conclusion
New Woman, Romance, and Railroads
This article sees Korea’s colonial modernity as a set of paradoxes and provides a reading of it through the most symptomatic aspects of such modernity—the New Woman, ideals of romance, hypermasculinity of the colonial subject, and railroads. I examine texts by and about colonial intellectuals who were at the forefront of cultural and literary experience and production. My discussion shows that this literature reveals colonial Korea as an arena in…
Nation Rebuilding and Postwar South Korean Cinema
This paper examines two remarkable films from the Golden Age of South Korean cinema (1955–1972) against the larger sociocultural backdrop of postwar South Korea. The films Mabu (The Coachman, Kang Taejin, director 1961) and Obalt’an (The Stray Bullet, Yu Hyônmok, director 1961) came out at a crucial historical moment for South Korea ’s nation rebuilding and postwar industrialization efforts, and reveal much about Korea’s nationhood, its masculine…
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Nation Rebuilding and Postwar South Korean Cinema
This paper examines two remarkable films from the Golden Age of South Korean cinema (1955–1972) against the larger sociocultural backdrop of postwar South Korea. The films Mabu (The Coachman, Kang Taejin, director 1961) and Obalt’an (The Stray Bullet, Yu Hyônmok, director 1961) came out at a crucial historical moment for South Korea ’s nation rebuilding and postwar industrialization efforts, and reveal much about Korea’s nationhood, its masculine…
New Woman, Romance, and Railroads
This article sees Korea’s colonial modernity as a set of paradoxes and provides a reading of it through the most symptomatic aspects of such modernity—the New Woman, ideals of romance, hypermasculinity of the colonial subject, and railroads. I examine texts by and about colonial intellectuals who were at the forefront of cultural and literary experience and production. My discussion shows that this literature reveals colonial Korea as an arena in…
Crisis of Gender and the Nation in Korean Literature and Cinema
Crisis of Gender and the Nation in Korean Literature and Cinema is about the changing constructs of modernity, masculinity, and gender relations and discourses in Korean literature and cinema during the crucial decades of the colonial and postcolonial era, based on close historical examination and a wide-ranging theoretical foundation that look at both western and Korean language sources. It examines Korean literary and cinematic texts from the p…
Crisis of Gender and the Nation in Korean Literature and Cinema
Chapter 1 1. Introduction Chapter 2 2. New Woman, Romance, and Railroads: The Paradox of Colonial Modernity Chapter 3 3. Burden of the Past: Confessional Writings in the Space of Decolonization Chapter 4 4. Literature of Instability and Despair: Woman and Masculinity in Postwar Fiction Chapter 5 5. Nation Re-Building and Postwar South Korean Cinema: The Coachman and The Stray Bullet Chapter 6 6. Conclusion
Towards humanity and redemption
The South Korean director Park Chan-wook's revenge film trilogy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy and Lady Vengeance, presents postmodern films that hearken back to the ancient morality before law with its eye-for-an-eye mentality. At the same time, there are significant revelations in the trilogy about the culture of contemporary South Korea and suggestive illustrations of its globalized, materialistic and metropolitan nature. The journey towa…
Enlightening the Other
The Japanese colonial authorities treated Korean subjects like pupils, and further, like metaphorical children in a number of ways. They attempted to enlighten Korea, and one of the most effective tools of enlightenment for the mostly illiterate colonial population was film. It was a powerful material of propaganda and governing due to its massive popularity since its introduction in the colony. Upon the Korea Film Decree announcement by the Gove…
On the margins
In this paper, I examine Coin-Locker Girl (Chainataun, Han Jun-hee, 2015) and The Villainess (Aknyeo, Jung Byung-gil, 2017), two recent examples of women-centred action genre films through the key concepts of surveillance, usefulness and the Freudian concept of the uncanny, which structure the films’ plot and meaning. In both films, usefulness becomes the reason for the characters’ survival and makes one recognizably human, while being useless ma…
Parameters of Disavowal
Jinsoo An claims in his book Parameters of Disavowal: Colonial Representation in South Korean Cinema that “the visualization of colonial space as the contentious site of both domination and incessant challenges to that domination informs the most enduring postcolonial imaginary of colonialism onscreen” (8). Captured in his brief analysis of the visual facade in Im Kwon-taek’s 1978 film The Genealogy is a critique of the ways in which postcolonial…
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