The History of the Korean Culture Industry - DOC

							The History of the Korean Culture and Media Industry


Michael Kim                              Office: New Millennium Hall 613
Email: mkim@yonsei.ac.kr                 Phone: 2123-6294


This course will explore various aspects of the history of the Korean culture
and media industry from the early modern period to the present. The first part
of the course will introduce theoretical and historical perspectives on the
social impact of the print, culture and media. The second part will then
examine the specific history of the culture and media industry in Korea.


Course Requirements:
             Class Participation                                30%
             Midterm Exam                                       30%
             Final Paper                                        40%


Students will be graded on their midterm exam, class discussions, paper
presentations and the final papers. The response paper can be on the film
showed in class or any other Korean film. The final paper must have proper
footnoting and will be graded for both their content and form. Students who do
not have experience writing academic papers should consult with me prior to
handing in the assignment.


Monday (9-3): The Print Revolution and the Impact of Writing
Elizabeth Eisenstein, “Defining the Initial Shift” in the Book History Reader, p.
       151-174
Roger Chartier, “The Practical Impact of Writing,” in Book History Reader, p.
       118-142


Monday (9-10): The Rise of the Media and Technology
Jane Chapman, Comparative Media History, p. 71-100
Friedrich Kittler, “Introduction,” in Gramophone, Film, Typewriter, p. 1-20.
Ray Williams, “Advertising: The Magic System,” p. 410-423.


Monday (9-17) Age of Mechanical Reproduction and the Culture Industry
Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” in
      Illuminations, p. 217-251.
Max Horkheimer & Theodor W. Adorno, “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment
       as Mass Deception in The Cultural Studies Reader, p. 31-41.
Douglas Kellner, “Theodor W. Adorno and the Dialectics of Mass Culture,” in
       Adorno A Critical Reader, p. 86-109.

Monday (9-24) Holiday No Class



Monday (10-1) The Semiotics of Media Texts
Stuart   Hall,  “Encoding/Decoding,” in Popular Culture: Production      and
         Consumption, p. 123-132.
John     Fiske, “Intertextuality,” in Popular Culture: Production        and
         Consumption,p. 219-233.

Monday (10-8) Popular Culture and Popular Memory
Jenkins, McPherson, and Shattuc, “Defining Popular Culture,” p. 26-42.
Maurice Halbwachs, On Collective Memory, p. 37-53


Monday (10-15) Orality and Literacy in Premodern Korea
Andrew Killick, “Jockeying for Tradition: The Checkered History of Korean
Ch‟angguk Opera,” Asian Theatre Journal, (Spring 2003), p. 43-70.


Monday (10-22) Midterm Exam



Monday (10-29) Korean Newspapers
Michael Kim, “Giving Reason to the Unreasonable: Philip Jaisohn and the New
     Urban Space of The Independent,” Comparative Korean Studies (2003),
     p. 185-207.
Myung-Koo Kang, “The Struggle for Press Freedom and Emergence of
     “Unelected” Media Power in South Korea,” in Asian Media Studies, p.
     75-90.


Monday (11-5) Colonial Publishing
Michael Robinson, “Colonial Publication Policy and the Korean Nationalist
      Movement,” in The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945, p. 312-343.
Jiweon Shin, “Social Construction of Idealized Images of Women in Colonial
      Korea: The „new woman‟ versus „motherhood,‟ in Decolonization
      Perspectives from now and then, p. 239-252.

Monday (11-12) Colonial Radio and Music
Michael Robinson, “Broadcasting, Cultural Hegemony,           and   Colonial
      Modernity,” in Colonial Modernity in Korea, p. 52-69.
Guest Lecture on Colonial Music Industry


Monday (11-19) The Colonial Film Industry
Hyangjin Lee, Contemporary Korean Cinema, p. 16-30.


Monday (11-26) Madame Freedom and Gender Representation
Kathleen McHugh, “South Korean Film Melodrama: State, Nation, Woman and
the Transnational Familiar,” p. 17-42.
Film Madame Freedom


Monday (12-3) Contemporary Korean Media Industry
Seung Hyun Park, “Film Censorship and Political Legitimation in South Korea,
     1987-1992” in Cinema Journal 42, No. 1 (Fall 2002), 120-138.
Jung Sun Park, “The Korean Wave: Transnational Cultural Flows in East
     Asia,” p.244-256.


Monday (12-10) Paper Presentations


Monday (12-17) Final Paper due on December 19