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Hieyoon Kim

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Dissident culture; film and media activism; film historiography and archive; experimental and avant-garde cinema; feminist filmmaking and programming; Korean cinema and popular culture

Assistant Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures College of Letters and Science hieyoon.kim@wisc.edu Home page Twitter: @0absentia

Topics

  • What kind of a different world do the various participants in the film ecology struggle for?
  • How do film workers and users challenge blockages of public expression and access to public resources, as well as institutionalized hegemonic codes that appear natural?
  • How does cinema expand public spaces in such a way that alternative imaginations of the social fabric can flourish?

Achievements

  • the author of Celluloid Democracy: Cinema and Politics in Cold War South Korea (University of California Press, 2023)

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