Cinema and the Cultural Cold War: US Diplomacy and the Origins of the Asian Cinema Network Seminar

Our Speaker: Sangjoon Lee is an Associate Professor of Asian cinema at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University. Lee is the author of Cinema and the Cultural Cold War: US Diplomacy and the Origins of the Asian Cinema Network (Cornell University Press, 2020), the editor of Hallyu 2.0: The Korean Wave in the Age of Social Media (University of Michigan Press, 2015) and Rediscovering Korean Cinema (University of Michigan Press, 2019), and the guest editor of "Reorienting Asian Cinema in the Age of the Chinese Film Market (Screen, 2019), "The Chinese Film Industry: Emerging Debates" (Journal of Chinese Cinemas, 2019), and "Transmedia and Asian Cinema" (Asian Cinema, 2020). Lee is currently editing The South Korean Film Industry (University of Michigan Press) and Asian Cinema and the Cultural Cold War (Amsterdam University Press), and also writing a new monograph Border Crossings in Celluloid Asia: South Korea's Encounter with Sinophone Cinemas (Amsterdam University Press, forthcoming).

Any questions or queries please contact Tracy Storey on tps@southampton.ac.uk