Emasculated: Angry Men in Korean New Wave Cinema
…the mission of psychoanalysis – that is, “to reestablish the broken network of communication by allowing the patient to verbalize the meaning of his symptom: […]
Articles by Nilesh Kumar
Urban Subversion: 6th Generation Chinese Cinema
1980s Chinese cinema created the fifth generation of filmmakers, who were literally the fifth generation of graduates from the only film school in China, the […]
Seoul: Post 1960s Genderised Cityscape
“The apartment block was an architectural monument to a phallocentric world.” Source here The contemporary Seoul cityscape, as well as other cities in South Korea, […]
Prostitute: Female Sacrifice in South Korean ‘Hostess’ Cinema (1974-1982)
Female mobilisation for the building of the Korean nation has been a recurring theme in modern Korean history, and particularly depicted within film and literature. […]
New Women: The Rise & Fall of the first Korean Feminists
More properly, we may speak of it (her status) as her want of position; for the principle is, in Korea, hardly more than a negation, […]
The Queers Are Here
“When social discourse claims that one does not exist, or in other words, when one is coerced into remaining a non-social entity, how does one […]