Jinsoo An

Jinsoo An, Associate Professor, received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Dept. of Film and Television at UCLA with his dissertation on post-war Korean cinema and national identity. He continued his research on Korean cinema and culture at the Dept. of East Asian Studies at NYU (2004-2006) as a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer, and taught at the School of Design and Media at Hongik University (2006-2010) in Korea before moving to Berkeley. He has written on topics related to Korean cinema, including representation of Christianity, nationalism, historical drama, popular justice, legal formalism, and cult film aesthetics. His book “Parameters of Disavowal” explores the representation of the colonial past as knowledge production and cultural imagining in South Korean cinema.  Currently, he is working on speech acts in South Korean cinema and Kim Ki-young’s film aesthetics.