Each essay should be 3-4 pages in length (double-spaced, 12-point font, with 1-inch margins). Your essay must tie together your answers to the separate questions within each prompt into a coherent, organized essay based on a central argument and analysis supported by your discussion of the films AND readings.
Be sure to refer to specific characters, lines, and scenes from the selected films as well as pertinent secondary sources (outside research is permitted).
Time codes are not necessary, but please do quote from the subtitled dialogue. All sources must be cited in footnotes and you must also have a bibliography.
Select two films and discuss the main female characters in the context of South Korean postwar economic development.
How are societal roles different for married women and single women? And how do the female characters empower themselves?
Prefer 2~3 quote from film, 2~3 from reading and 1 from outside research)
I have all of the reading pdf. I can send pdf through email.
Movies are on the YouTube (I put address at the second page)
No copy and paste no Plagiarism
Need to within 90hr but always soon is the better.
In the movie ‘Madame Freedom’, “We need to be economically independent to avoid the tyranny of our husbands” (38min in the movie) I want this quotation in the essay if it is possible.
General Reading
– Seung Hyun Park, “Korean Cinema after Liberation: Production, Industry, and Regulatory
Trends,” in Frances Gateward, ed., Seoul Searching; Culture and Identity in
Contemporary Cinema (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007) 15-35.
– Gina Yu, “Images of Women in Korean Movies,” Introduction to Korean Film, 261-268.
https://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/jsp/publications/download.jsp?fileNm=Theme261.p
df
Movie 1. Madame Freedom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkAbVQhfpmw&has_verified=1
Reading Madame Freedom
– Kathleen McHugh, “South Korean Film Melodrama: State, Nation, Woman, and the
Transnational Familiar,” in Kathleen McHugh and Nancy Abelmann, eds., South
Korean Golden Age Melodrama: Gender, Genre, and National Cinema (Detroit: Wayne
State University Press, 2005) 17-42.
– Kim Keong-il, “Modernity and Tradition in Everyday Life of the 1950s,” Seoul Journal of
Korean Studies 14 (2001): 263-297.
In the movie ‘Madame Freedom’, “We need to be economically independent to avoid the tyranny of our husbands” (38min in the movie) I want this quotation in the essay if it is possible.
- The Housemaid (1960) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOn5_tF7STo&t=585s
Reading Housemaid
– Soyoung Kim, “Questions of Woman’s Film: The Maid, Madame Freedom, and Women” in
Kathleen McHugh and Nancy Abelmann, eds. South Korean Golden Age Melodrama:
Gender, Genre, and National Cinema (Wayne State University Press, 2005), 185-200.
– Kyung Hyun Kim, “Lethal Work: Domestic Space and Gender Troubles in Happy End and
The Housemaid,” in Kathleen McHugh and Nancy Abelmann, eds. South Korean
Golden Age Melodrama: Gender, Genre, and National Cinema (Wayne State University
Press, 2005), 201-228.
- Youngja’s Heyday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN_pbS1FzSE&has_verified=1
Reading Youngha’s Heyday
– Kim Sunah, “Yeongja’s Face and the Failure of the Dialectic in Yeong-ja’s Heydays,” in
Korean Film Archive, ed., Women on Screen: Understanding Korean Society and
Women through Films (Seoul: Korean Film Archive, 2012), 138-150.
– Kim Chan Young and David R. Carter, trans., “Young-ja’s Heyday,” in The Preview and
Other Stories by Cho Sun Jak (Fremont, CA: Asian Humanities Press/Jain Publishing
Company, 2003), 209-234.