Diversity on the Korean Screen

Yonson Ahn is a Professor at Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany.Dal Yong Jin is a Distinguished Professor at Simon Fraser University, Canada.

• Introduction: Gender and the Rearticulation of Narrative in Korean Screen Media Part 1: Gender on the Korean Screen 1. Representing South Korean Older Female (Micro)celebrities on YouTube; 2. At the Juncture of Ageism and Sexism: Reconfiguring Elderly Women in Korean Screen Culture; 3. The Representation of Women: Examining Images of Mother Figures and the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Contemporary South Korean Films and Series in Terms of Expectations and Pressure in Education; 4. Age, Gender and Successful Second Innings: Reimagining Life Templates of Ageing Women through Korean Dramas; 5. Profitable Wounds: Gendered Representation as the Re-commodification of Adoptee-ness in Korean Drama Part 2: Evolving Narratives and Representation on the Korean Screen 6. Evolving Narratives and Diversity in K-pop Girl Groups: A Three-Decade Analysis of Keywords in Song Lyrics and Thematic Emphasis in Music Videos; 7. Mental Illness and Neurodivergence in the Contemporary K-Drama Romance: It’s Okay to Not Be Okay (2020), Extraordinary Attorney Woo (2022), and Daily Dose of Sunshine (2023); 8. Re-membering Marginalized Post-War Narratives: Virtual Reality in Contemporary Korean Art; 9. Behind the Scenes: Understanding the Journey of Filipino Extras in Hallyuwood; 10. Queer Korean American Films: Mutability and Misbehaving in the Work of Andrew Ahn and Eric Cho; Afterword: Toward a Postcolonial Korean Screen Studies; Index