South Korean Women’s Cinema Conference – 23-25 September 2021

Still from Kangyu Garam's documentary Us, Day by Day (우리는 매일매일, 2019) II

The full programme for the South Korean Women’s Cinema conference can be found here. Be sure to register on Eventbrite for details of how to join the conference. The South Korean Women’s Cinema (SKWC) conference will take place online, from Thursday 23 September to Saturday 25 September 2021, hosted online by Dr Chi-Yun Shin of Sheffield Hallam University and funded […]

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East Asian Film Noir: Transnational Encounters and Intercultural Dialogue – Dr Chi-Yun Shin (Eds)

Book cover: East Asian Film Noir: Transnational Encounters and Intercultural Dialogue

Film noir has been understood as a genre exclusive to Hollywood. But classical US noir’s downbeat sensibility also finds expression in later films from Japan, South Korea and China (including Hong Kong) and Taiwan, that have both participated in and been excluded from circuits of global-noir traffic, past and present. East Asian Film Noir is the first book to explore […]

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