Associate Professor Dong Hoon Kim Publishes New Article on the global reception of recent North Korean films

SituationsAssociate Professor Dong Hoon Kim’s new article, “Comrade Kim Goes Global: Refiguring North Korean Cinema in a Global Context,” was published in the Fall 2020 issue of Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context.

In his article, Kim tracks North Korean cinema’s forays into the global film scene in the past several decades to illustrate and discover a historical trajectory of the global dimension of North Korean film, focusing on the production and reception of two films, A Schoolgirl’s Diary (2006) and Comrade Kim Goes Flying (2012).

The article is available for download on the journal’s website.