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by Hyunseon Lee (Editor)
This interdisciplinary book examines the relationship between film and history and the links between historical research and filmic (re-)presentations of history with special reference to South Korean cinema.
Author Biography
Hyunseon Lee is a London-based film, media and cultural scholar. She is Privatdozentin at the Department of German (teaching in literature, culture and media) at Siegen University and Professorial Research Associate at the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, and Centre for Creative Industries, Media and Screen Studies, SOAS, University of London. She is also Professional Researcher of the Institute of Humanities at Yonsei University in Seoul. Her publications include books and articles on film, popular culture, gender, German literature and media aesthetics from a comparative intermedial perspective. Her recent book is Korean Film and Festivals: Global Transcultural Flows (Routledge, 2022), which she edited alone. She currently researches war, gender and memory with a focus on K-culture and Korean Peninsula cinema.
