Paris to Pyongyang

dc.contributor.advisorLongfellow, Brenda
dc.contributor.authorLee, Helen Hyun-Joo
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-18T18:11:32Z
dc.date.available2024-03-18T18:11:32Z
dc.date.issued2024-03-16
dc.date.updated2024-03-16T10:53:30Z
dc.degree.disciplineFilm And Video
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMFA - Master of Fine Arts
dc.description.abstractParis to Pyongyang is a 32-minute essay film about post-Korean War era recollections presented through dual narratives: a contingent of French artists and intellectuals visiting North Korea in 1958 who created literary and artistic works (including the feature film Moranbong) about the cross-cultural encounter, and a Korean War family separation story presented from the perspective of the filmmaker’s mother, Jung-Sook Lee. The filmmaker juxtaposes the events and reframes these works and Lee's wartime trauma through a contemporary, inquiring lens. The film proposes how contingencies of language and translation, gender dynamics, and cultural power affect our understanding of socio-political histories and personal, familial memory, in pursuit of new pathways for diasporic aesthetic expressions.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/41923
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectFilm studies
dc.subjectAsian studies
dc.subjectAsian American studies
dc.subject.keywordsKorean War
dc.subject.keywordsDiaspora
dc.subject.keywordsBorder studies
dc.subject.keywordsNorth Korea
dc.subject.keywordsChris Marker
dc.subject.keywordsClaude Lanzmann
dc.subject.keywordsMoranbong
dc.subject.keywordsWar trauma
dc.subject.keywordsImmigration
dc.titleParis to Pyongyang
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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