Lecturer Yu’s book review in Los Angeles Review of Books

Yu reviews Joseph Jeon’s volume on Korean cinema and imperialistic global capital.

“In this world of financialization and speculative capital, cinema occupies a privileged position not merely because it is, in J. D. Connor’s estimation, always a numbers game, a glorified calculation that makes its way to the screen. We might call it an aesthetics of financialization, or in Connor’s terms, of “math and aftermath.”  Jeon, on the other hand, argues that “Korea’s IMF Cinema is filled with second-order representations of economic phenomena that ... attempt a systematic diagnosis of how such an economy emerges as a matter of processes, incentives, and imbalances and how this economy comes to reproduce itself according to Western models” (4). One should then name this: the aftermath of an aftermath.”

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