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The Journal of Korean Studies (JKS) is pleased to announce that our first thematic/guest edited issue “Unsettling the National in Korean Cinema” Volume 16 No. 2 (Fall 2011) is now available! Digital copies are available NOW through Project Muse. Please visit your institution’s online library to download a copy http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_korean_studies/
Over 80 films are discussed in this issue dating from the era of silent films and "talkies" though to movies made during the first decade of the 2000s.
Articles include: National Cinema: An Anachronistic Delirium? by JungBong Choi, Visibility, Nationality, Archive by Steven Chung, The Power of Representation: Korean Movie Narrators and Authority by Roald Maliangkay, The Transnational Constitution of Im Kwon-Taek’s Minjok Cinema in Chokpo, Sŏp’yŏnje, and Ch’wihwasŏn by Kyung Hyun Kim, Restoring the Transnational from the Abyss of Ethnonational Film Historiography: The Case of Chung Chang Wha by Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park, Cartography of Catastrophe: Pre-Colonial Surveys, Post-Colonial Vampires, and the Plight of Korean Modernity by Soyoung Kim
Book Reviews include:
Gender and Mission Encounters in Korea: New Women, Old Ways by Hyaeweol Choi,
Reviewed by Su Yun Kim
Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945 by Mark Caprio,
Reviewed by Michael Kim
Witness to Transformation: Refugee Insights into North Korea by Marcus Noland and Stephan Epstein, Reviewed by Ivo Plsek
Inside the Red Box: North Korea’s Post-totalitarian Politics, by Patrick McEachern and: The Hidden People of North Korea: Everyday Life in the Hermit Kingdom by Ralph Hassig and Kongdan Oh, Reviewed by Scott Thomas Bruce
Horror to the Extreme: Changing Boundaries in Asian Cinema by Jinhee Choi and Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano, Reviewed by Kyu Hyun Kim
The JKS publishes a regular, varied issue each spring and a thematic issue in the fall.
The Journal of Korean Studies welcomes submissions year round.
Call for Papers Deadlines:
February 1, 2012 – Spring regular issue (2013)
July 31, 2012—Thematic issue (Fall 2013) “The End of War? The Korean Armistice after Sixty Years” Guest edited by Charles Armstrong
For detailed information about submitting manuscripts for publication please contact:
The Journal of Korean Studies
c/o Managing Editor
500 Thomson Hall Box 353650
Seattle, Washington 98195-3650
E-mail: jourks@u.washington.edu
Website: http://jsis.washington.edu/korea/jks/
Subscriptions and Back Issues:
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers handles print subscriptions to the JKS. Subscriptions are available to individuals and institutions for 1, 2, or 3 year periods. Back issues are also available.
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If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact me by phone or email.
Sincerely,
Tracy L. Stober
Managing Editor
The Journal of Korean Studies
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