Korea Foundation Research Fellowship (2005-2006): “Exploring the Uniqueness and Complexity of Korea’s National Film Industry”

Brian Yecies

Research program: Culture and Representation

For this project extensive archive research and industry interviews were in conducted in South Korea. As a Research Fellow working with Kim Soyoung at the Korea National University of Arts in Seoul, I investigated the historical developments of cinema and Hollywood’s long-term role in Korea. Rare materials collected during the fellowship have provided the basis for: 1) Sounds of Celluloid Dreams: Coming of the Talkies to Cinema in Colonial Korea, Korea Journal 48:1 (Spring 2008): 160-197, and 2) a book on film culture, exhibition and distribution in colonial Korea and post-colonial South Korea: Korea’s Occupied Cinemas (with Ae-Gyung Shim): Routledge Advances in Film Studies (forthcoming).