Cinema and Mobility: A new look at Korea’s modernity in the 20th century
TITLE: Cinema and Mobility: A new look at Korea’s modernity in the 20th century
TIME: Tuesday, October 20, 5-6:30pm.
LOCATION: STH Room 625, 745 Commonwealth Ave.
SPEAKER: Han Sang KIM, PhD in Historical Sociology
Visiting Researcher, Boston University Center for the Study of Asia
This talk is intended to provide a visual sociological framework for investigating the inseparable relationship between cinema and modern transportation mobility in mobilizing the public through the case of 20th century Korea. Through a comparison of films made in Korea during Japanese imperial rule with those made under U.S. hegemony during the Cold War, this talk will provide evidence of a profound shift in regimes of visual mobility from rail- to automobile-based. While the former connected to an ideology of collective forward movements associated with the development of regularized systems, the latter led to intensely flexible systems of mobility.
SPONSPOR: Boston University Center for the Study of Asia; the Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature