East Asian Cinema as Global Cinema with Seung-hoon Jeong

East Asian Cinema as Global Cinema 

Thursday March 21 12-1 p.m . 

CPaCE Building - Room 100A 

Seung-hoon Jeong  (Assistant Professor of Film and Electronic Arts)

Globalization has brought a blossoming of inclusive systems of transnational capitalism, multicultural traffic, and networking technology, while also generating symptoms of exclusion related to migration/refuge, precarious life, and various catastrophes that debunk the holistic universality of one rainbow global village. Political dialectics has turned into the absolute antagonism between the ‘soft’ ethical inclusion of differences in the whole and the ‘hard’ ethical backlash from its excluded remnants. Then how does cinema address today’s global life? This talk addresses the question in the frame of ‘global East Asia,’ with its Asian identity taking on compatible locality that is not absolutely confined in Asian particularity. ‘Global East Asian cinema’ could then be termed for critical engagement with global phenomena and their influences on the notions of community and subjectivity as reflected or allegorized in the East Asian context.