[Commlist] Call for Papers Situations Cultural Studies in the Asian Context September Jeju Island Conference

*Call for Papers: 2022 Situations International Conference*

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*Global Content Provider:*

*Korean Film and TV Drama as Industry and Entertainment*

*21-22 October 2022, Jeju, South Korea*

Right now, a lot of eyes are focused on Korea. In 2020, Bong 
Joon-ho’s/Parasite/became the first non-English-language film to win 
Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Soon after, its director called for 
film audiences to overcome the “one-inch-tall barrier of subtitles.” Two 
years later, Hwang Don-hyuk’s/Squid Game/(2021) became the top Netflix 
show in 90 countries, garnering over 111 million fans. Although these 
two massive hits might appear to have come out of the blue, the ascent 
of Korean drama to worldwide acclaim did not happen overnight. For 
decades, televisual K-dramas have been popular in major sites in Asia, 
ranging from Japan to Saudi Arabia; since the end of the 1990s, Korean 
films become featured more regularly at some of the major international 
film festivals. Korean films that won prizes at Cannes and Venice, 
including Park Chan-wook’s/Oldboy/(2003), Lee 
Chang-dong’s/Secret//Sunshine/(2007) and Kim Ki-dok’s/Piéta/(2012) not 
only won over cinephiles but worked in tandem with popular dramas like 
Lee Byung-hoon’s/Daejanggeum/(2003) to spark interest in Korean culture 
as a whole.

Against the backdrop of the critical success and popular acclaim of 
Korean films and drama, this interdisciplinary conference invites papers 
that explore the range of themes and topics connected to the South 
Korean film and TV industry. We are interested in papers that explore 
both the infrastructure of the Korean entertainment industry and in the 
Korean dramatic forms dependent on screenplay and telescript. The 
following topics are listed as mere suggestions; in practice, we welcome 
a full range of papers, including papers that offer perspectives that 
differ, and even differ sharply, from the dominant liberal or 
progressive consensus in cultural studies:

lBong Sang-Gyun and Son: The Genealogies of Korean Family Creativity

lKorean Talent Agencies

lKorean Film Companies

lThe Korean Film Festival: BIFF and its Others

lWriting for the Screen in Korea

lMarkets for Actors in Korea

lUniversity Departments: Manufacturing Creativity?

lStreaming Services in Korea: Netflix and Its Others

lMelodrama and Other Genres in Korean TV Drama

lKorean Adaptation: From Novel to Screen

lThe Art of Translation: Korean Drama and Global Content Provision

lAlternative Histories in Korean TV and Film

lSexuality and its Discontents in Korean TV Drama

lTraditional Femininity and Independent Women in Korean Drama

lUnder Siege: Men, Masculinity and Masculinist Concerns in Korean Drama

lNational Ethnocentric Interests and Global Migrant Agendas

lLGBTQ Korean films/dramas and representations of LGBTQ characters

lImage versus reality in Korean cinema

lDepictions of religion in Korean popular culture

lVirtual history and speculative futures of the Korean peninsula

lFeminism and the “Me Too” movement in Korean culture

l/Ilbe/, the alt-right, and beyond

lMasculinity in Korean cinema and TV dramas

lAsian values on screen: liberalism and tradition, progressivism and 
religion

lScreen translation of Korean films/dramas/webtoons

Early inquires with 200-word abstracts are appreciated. By 1 September 
2022, we would invite you to submit your 4,000-word Chicago-format 
conference presentation with its abstract and keywords. Each invited 
participant will then be expected to turn his or her conference 
presentation into a finished 6,000-word paper for possible inclusion in 
a future issue of the SCOPUS-indexed journal,/Situations: Cultural 
Studies in the Asian Context/.

Submissions should follow the Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed.), using 
only endnotes. For further details about the citation protocols, refer 
to our journal website: http://situations.yonsei.ac.kr/sub03/sub01.php 
<http://situations.yonsei.ac.kr/sub03/sub01.php>.

We will pay the hotel accommodation for those participants whose final 
papers we accept. There are no registration fees.

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*Should the coronavirus situation remain critical, we will consider 
changing the conference format to a hybrid or virtual one.*

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*All correspondence should be sent to**(situations /at/ yonsei.ac.kr)* 
<mailto:(situations /at/ yonsei.ac.kr)>*and addressed to the Managing Editor, 
Dr Rhee Suk Koo and the two Editors, Dr Terence Murphy and Dr Peter Paik.*

CFP Categories:/Korean film, Korean TV drama, Korean studies, film 
studies, cultural studies, gender studies, Asian film, Asian studies/


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