KRN 311 - Korean Cinema and Visual Culture

• Identify and relate major milestones in modern Korean history and culture that are reflected in cinema and visual arts. Examples include: Japanese colonial occupation, the civil war and division of Korea, the IMF crisis, among others.
• Examine multiple perspectives on social justice and inequality in contemporary Korea as reflected in Korean visual culture, with emphasis on gender, sexuality and social class.
• Demonstrate an understanding of processes involved in the globalization of production and consumption of Korean cultural texts from the perspective of global economy of culture and the arts.  
• Analyze local-to-global dynamics in production and consumption of visual culture in contemporary Korea.    
• Compare and reflect on one’s own participation in global cultural economy  and the ideas of responsible global stewardship.
• Apply key concepts and interdisciplinary methodologies of  Film Studies and Cultural Studies to a variety of cultural artifacts. 
• Analyze various social, political and cultural issues in Korea through the lens of popular culture.  
• Effectively articulate and address issues of globalization and their impact on Korean popular culture through interdisciplinary analysis of global Korean phenomena such as K-Pop and Korean international blockbusters.