Situations Vol. 3 (Winter 2009)
Table of Contents
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Special Issue:
Style in/of Space: Between Genres, Between Cultures
Anthony Curtis Adler
The Other Lilliput: Commodity-life and the Discontinuous Space of Television
Terence Patrick Murphy
Thought and Speech Presentation in Fiction, with Notes on Film Adaptation
Hye-Joon Yoon
Space and Lifestyle of Seoul: A Prolegomena on Non-descript Distinctions
Review of Contemporary Culture
(a) Movie
Sung-A Jeung
Towards Women’s, and Your Festival: International Women’s Film Festival in Seoul
Song Jung-Gyung
Avatar: Who am I? Where am I?
Hea Lim Choi
Ninja Assassin: Never Ending Nostalgia of Martial Arts films
Sung Gyung Jo
A Fistful of Yen: The De-mystification of an Asian Kung-Fu Hero
(b) Music and Performance
Mariah Junglan Min
The Art of Crossing the Line
Jiyun Camilla Nam
“Chang Ki-ha and the Faces”: An Underground Indie Band Rockets to Unexpected Fame
(c) Lifestyle
Hyun Joo Yoo
How to Globalize Hansik
Rok Yup Jung
Chasing “Spec”: How the Younger Generation Seeks to Restore the Life-World
The third issue of Situations explores the question of space, in its different, disjucntive, discrete manifestations, as the space of media presentaion, the represented space in fiction and film, and the urban space marked with visible signs of social disctinctions. The first essay dissects the "discontinuous space" of television to bring out the ciritical "truth" of what the author calls the "truth-action"/"action truth" concocted in that space. What emerges in the space of television is a form of life predicated entirely on commodity in every sense of the word. The second essay takes a step back from the contemporary cultural space of television to investigate the literary and cinematic styles of narration in Jane Austen novels (and film adaptations) through which a sense of pressence, closeness and distance is produced and manipulated. The essay's close reading offers a densely mapped analytical chart with which the textual spaces of the well-known novels can be re-discovered. The third essay takes the topic of stylized space to the "outside" space of Seoul's class topography, whose famous contrast between Kangnam and Kangbuk largely reflecting the discrepancy in real estate price is shown to conceal a more complicated and ambivalent articulation of lifestyles, over and behind the manifest contrasts in property ownership.
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