Jihong Kim

Jihong Kim is working on emergence of Korean nationalism in the early twentieth century. Employing cinema as a site where American, Japanese and Korean nationalities were performed in contact with one another, Jihong aims to understand cinematic text made by and for Koreans under the Japanese rule (1910-1945). He will be looking at literatures, films and government archives.
Keywords: History; cinema and media studies; literature; Korea; nationalism; structure and agency