A masterful, pioneering and readable history of the evolution of Korean documentary film over the last half-century. Combining close reading, theoretical sophistication, and a deep understanding of socio-political and economic context, this work exemplifies the best in documentary scholarship today. Essential reading for students and scholars of documentary film, and for those concerned with the present and future of non-fiction storytelling generally.
Jihoon Kim is Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at Chung-Ang University. He is the author of Documentary's Expanded Fields: New Media and the Twenty-First-Century Documentary (2022) and Between Film, Video, and the Digital: Hybrid Moving Images in the Post-Media Age (2016).