Miss Jia Kang is a Postgraduate research student in Film at the University of Southampton
2016-2017 – MA Film and Cultural Management, the University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
2011-2015 – BA Television Drama Literature, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.
My thesis project is called ‘The development of South Korean Art Cinema since the 1990s: An analysis of the films by Kim Ki-duk, Lee Chang-dong, and Hong Sang-soo.’
My project focuses on three representative art cinema directors. Drawing on a variety of concepts concerning global art cinema and transnational cinema, my thesis analyses the diversity of aesthetic approaches in contemporary South Korean cinema.