Brushed in Light: Calligraphy in East Asian Cinema
Author: Markus Nornes
Publication Date: 2021
Drawing on a millennia of calligraphy theory and history, Brushed in Light examines how the brushed word appears in films and in film cultures of Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and PRC cinemas. This includes silent era intertitles, subtitles, title frames, letters, graffiti, end titles, and props. Markus Nornes also looks at the role of calligraphy in film culture at large, from gifts to correspondence to advertising. The book begins with a historical dimension, tracking how calligraphy is initially used in early cinema and how it is continually rearticulated by transforming conventions and the integration of new technologies. These chapters ask how calligraphy creates new meaning in cinema and demonstrate how calligraphy, cinematography, and acting work together in a single film. The last part of the book moves to other regions of theory. Nornes explores the cinematization of the handwritten word and explores how calligraphers understand their own work.
Markus Nornes is Professor of Asian Cinema at the University of Michigan.
Korean Families Yesterday and Today
Editors: Hyunjoon Park and Hyeyoung Woo
Publication Date: 2020
Korean families have changed significantly during the last few decades in their composition, structure, attitudes, and function. Delayed and forgone marriage, fertility decline, and rising divorce rates are just a few examples of changes that Korean families have experienced at a rapid pace, more dramatic than in many other contemporary societies. Moreover, the increase of marriages between Korean men and foreign women has further diversified Korean families. Yet traditional norms and attitudes toward gender and family continue to shape Korean men and women’s family behaviors.
Korean Families Yesterday and Today portrays diverse aspects of the contemporary Korean families and, by explicitly or implicitly situating contemporary families within a comparative historical perspective, reveal how the past of Korean families evolved into their current shapes. While the study of families can be approached in many different angles, our lens focuses on families with children or young adults who are about to forge family through marriage and other means. This focus reflects that delayed marriage and declined fertility are two sweeping demographic trends in Korea, affecting family formation. Moreover, “intensive” parenting has characterized Korean young parents and therefore, examining change and persistence in parenting provides important clues for family change in Korea.
This volume should be of interest not only to readers who are interested in Korea but also to those who want to understand broad family changes in East Asia in comparative perspective.
Hyunjoon Park is Korea Foundation Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.
Hyeyoung Woo is Associate Professor of Sociology at Portland State University.
Revisiting Minjung New Perspectives on the Cultural History of 1980s South Korea
Editor: Sunyoung Park
Publication Date: 2019
Foremost scholars of 1980s South Korea bring new perspectives on this pivotal period, expanding the horizons of Korean cultural studies by reassessing old conventions and adding new narratives
Rediscovering Korean Cinema
Author: Sangjoon Lee
Publication Date: 2019
The first comprehensive volume examining the state, stakes, and future direction of Korean cinema studies.
Entrepreneurial Seoulite Culture and Subjectivity in Hongdae, Seoul
Author: Mihye Cho
Publication Date: 2019
A lucid narration of post-financial crisis urbanism in Seoul and the vivid experiences of living through the city in transition
Buddhas and Ancestors: Religion and Wealth in Fourteenth-Century Korea
Author: Juhn Y. Ahn
Publication Date: 2018
Cultures of Yusin: South Korea in the 1970s
Editor: Youngju Ryu
Publication Date: 2018
Korean Communication, Media, and Culture: An Annotated Bibliography
Editors: Kyu Ho Youm and Nojin Kwak
Publication Date: 2018
Communication, Digital Media, and Popular Culture in Korea: Contemporary Research and Future Prospects
Editors: Dal Yong Jin and Nojin Kwak
Publication Date: 2018
Transgression in Korea: Beyond Resistance and Control
Edited by Juhn Y. Ahn
Publication Date: 2018
Sport in Korea: History, Development, Management
Editors: Dae Hee Kwak, Yong Jae Ko, Inkyu Kang, Mark Rosentraub
Publication Date: 2018
Smartland Korea: Mobile Communication, Culture, and Society
Author: Dal Yong Jin
Publication Date: 2017
Contested Embrace: Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea
Author: Jaeeun Kim
Publication Date: 2016
Hallyu 2.0: The Korean Wave in the Age of Social Media
Editors: Sangjoon Lee, Abé Mark Nornes
Publication Date: 2015
Writers of the Winter Republic: Literature and Resistance in Park Chung Hee's Korea
Author: Youngju Ryu
Publication Date: 2015
Contemporary Korean Art: Tansaekhwa and the Urgency of Method
Author: Joan Kee
Publication Date: 2013