Steven Chung, Princeton University
Associate Professor
Princeton, New Jersey
sychung@Princeton.EDU
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(609) 258-0917
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Bio/Research
My core research interest is modern Korean culture, which I arrived at through eclectic training in literary, ethnic, film and regional studies. For the past several years I have been busy trying to understand postwar film cultures in Korea through the prolific and wildly itinerant career of Sin ...
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Bio/Research
My core research interest is modern Korean culture, which I arrived at through eclectic training in literary, ethnic, film and regional studies. For the past several years I have been busy trying to understand postwar film cultures in Korea through the prolific and wildly itinerant career of Sin Sang-ok. The seed for this project was my PhD dissertation and the final form it will take will be in a book entitled The Split Screen. My writing is influenced by close attention to modern and contemporary Korean literature as well as to East Asian cinemas of a variety of periods. My approach to all of these texts and events is informed by a long commitment to critical theory. I am currently laying the groundwork for another research venture, through which I would like to reconsider the global “cold war” through the archives of Korean mass cultures of the 1940s and 1950s.
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