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Dong Hoon Kim

Associate Professor of Cinema Studies
Cinema Studies
Phone: 541-346-4108
Office: 104 PLC, 6223 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-6223
Office Hours: Winter 25: Mondays 12-1:30p.m. or by appointment

Statement

Professor Dong Hoon Kim is a media historian and cultural studies scholar whose primary research interest lies in excavating film and media history to uncover and unpack the historical, ideological, and discursive formations of visual culture. His current research and teaching focus on colonial cinema, socialist cinema, transnational media, media spectatorship, and East Asian film, media, and popular culture. He is the author of Eclipsed Cinema: The Film Culture of Colonial Korea (Edinburgh University Press, 2017) and the co-editor, with Travis Workman and Immanuel Kim, of The Bloomsbury Handbook of North Korean Cinema (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025). He engages in a variety of activities in the field besides his academic research, directing short films, working for film festivals, and serving as consultant to film company.

 

Publications

    Books 

  • Eclipsed Cinema: The Film Culture of Colonial Korea (Edinburgh University Press, 2017)
  • The Handbook of North Korean Cinema. Co-edited with Travis Workman and Immanuel Kim(Bloomsbury, 2025)

    Select Articles

  • “Stars without Glamor: Moon Ye-bong and the Making of Socialist Stars in North Korea.” In The Handbook of North Korean Cinema, edited by Dong Hoon Kim, Travis Workman and Immanuel Kim. London: Bloomsbury, 2025.
  • “An Interview with the Director Nick Bonner” In The Handbook of North Korean Cinema, edited by Dong Hoon Kim, Travis Workman and Immanuel Kim (London: Bloomsbury, 2025)
  • “Disaster and the Landscape of the Heart in Asako I & II.” In Eco-disasters in Japanese Cinema, edited by Rachel DiNitto. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024.
  • Benshi as a Transcolonial Practice: Benshi and Byeonsa in Korea.” In The World of the Benshi, edited by Daisuke Miyao and Michael Emmerich, Los Angeles: the Yanai Initiative and the UCLA Film & Television Archive, 2024.
  • “Producers of Parasite and the Question of Film Authorship: Producing a Global Author, Authoring a Global Production.” In The Soft Power of Korean Wave, edited by Youna Kim, London and New York: Routledge, 2021.
  • “Comrade Kim Goes Global: Reconfiguring North Korean Cinema in a Global Context.” Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context (September 2020).
  • “Cinema Studies.” (Lead author, with Hye Seung Chung, Ji-Yoon An, and Trace Cabot) In Korean Communication, Media, and Culture: An Annotated Bibliography, edited by Kyu Ho Youm and Nojin Kwak. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018.
  • “The Politics and Poetics of North Korean Juche Cinema.” Asian Cinema (October 2014).
  • “Performing Colonial Identity: Byeonsa, Colonial Film Spectatorship, and the Formation of National Cinema in Korea under Japanese Colonial Rule.” In Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema, edited by Daisuke Miyao. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2014.
  • “Segregated Cinemas, Intertwined Histories: The Ethnically Segregated Film Cultures in 1920s Korea under Japanese Colonial Rule.” The Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema 1, no. 1 (2009). In Japanese Translation: “分離されたシネマ、絡み合う歴史――日本植民地支配下の一九二〇年代朝鮮映画文化.” In 日本映画史叢書14:  観客へのアプローチ (Japanese Film History Series, vol. 14: Approaches to Audiences), edited by Hideaki Fujiki, Tokyo, Japan: Shinwasha, 2011.

Teaching

  • CINE/KRN 151M Introduction to Korean Cinema
  • CINE 399 Studio Ghibli Animation
  • CINE 440/540 Japanese New Wave Cinema
  • CINE 490/590 Transnational Film Genres
  • CINE 490/590 Transnational Film Authorship
  • KRN 410/510 Violence in Korean Film and Culture
  • EALL 410/510 Cultural Studies & East Asian Popular Culture
  • EALL 410/510 Visions of the Empire
  • EALL 607 East Asian Cinema