We Jung Yi
Biographic Data
| ID | 6629888 |
|---|---|
| NAME | We Jung Yi |
| GIVEN NAMES | We Jung |
| FAMILY NAME | Yi |
| SIGNATURE | YI W J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Redrawing the Division Lines
This article examines Cold War icons transfigured in new media ecology by looking at the South Korean webtoon (web cartoon) Secretly, Greatly. In featuring the superfluous existence of kanch’ŏp (North Korean spies) dispatched to the South, the graphic narrative interweaves the legacy of national division with the sensibilities of the millennial generation. Feeling that their lives are rendered ingyŏ (surplus) under neoliberal governance, the prec…
Melodramatic Tactics for Survival in the Neoliberal Era
This article examines two 2013 TV miniseries, The Heirs and My Love from the Star, by relating their melodramatic aesthetics to the survivalist imperative under neoliberal governance. From the colonial sinp’a theater to Golden Age films, melodrama has operated as a popular mode of imagination that expresses inarticulate experiences generated over the course of Korea’s modernization. To extend and complicate existing scholarship on modern melodram…
The Pleasure of Mourning
This article looks at the translation of memory in Korean War blockbusters produced during the decade of South Korea’s Sunshine Policy (1998–2008). To trace how the nation’s traumatic past has been reshaped as visual entertainment for the era of globalization, I examine three films of the genre: Gongdong gyeongbi guyeok JSA ( Joint Security Area ; Park Chan-wook, 2000), Taegeukgi hwinallimyeo ( Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of War ; Kang Je-gyu, 2004…
Redrawing the Division Lines
This article examines Cold War icons transfigured in new media ecology by looking at the South Korean webtoon (web cartoon) Secretly, Greatly. In featuring the superfluous existence of kanch’ŏp (North Korean spies) dispatched to the South, the graphic narrative interweaves the legacy of national division with the sensibilities of the millennial generation. Feeling that their lives are rendered ingyŏ (surplus) under neoliberal governance, the prec…
Melodramatic Tactics for Survival in the Neoliberal Era
This article examines two 2013 TV miniseries, The Heirs and My Love from the Star, by relating their melodramatic aesthetics to the survivalist imperative under neoliberal governance. From the colonial sinp’a theater to Golden Age films, melodrama has operated as a popular mode of imagination that expresses inarticulate experiences generated over the course of Korea’s modernization. To extend and complicate existing scholarship on modern melodram…
The Pleasure of Mourning
This article looks at the translation of memory in Korean War blockbusters produced during the decade of South Korea’s Sunshine Policy (1998–2008). To trace how the nation’s traumatic past has been reshaped as visual entertainment for the era of globalization, I examine three films of the genre: Gongdong gyeongbi guyeok JSA ( Joint Security Area ; Park Chan-wook, 2000), Taegeukgi hwinallimyeo ( Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of War ; Kang Je-gyu, 2004…
Redrawing the Division Lines
This article examines Cold War icons transfigured in new media ecology by looking at the South Korean webtoon (web cartoon) Secretly, Greatly. In featuring the superfluous existence of kanch’ŏp (North Korean spies) dispatched to the South, the graphic narrative interweaves the legacy of national division with the sensibilities of the millennial generation. Feeling that their lives are rendered ingyŏ (surplus) under neoliberal governance, the prec…
Art (3 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Japanese History and Culture (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (2 works) · Media studies (2 works)