Caitlyn Chung

Summary Statement of Research Interests

My research interests lie in the intersection of the feminine queer body, Korean cinematic archive, and visuality as a means to interrogate the ways that the state and its accompanying (heterosexist and patriarchal) biopolitical frameworks control the ways visibility has, and continues to, shift the boundaries of subjectivity. By examining the ways queer women in film have been systematically erased, marginalized, and disavowed, she attempts to illuminate the structures of violence in Korean film that facilitate the establishment of not only a grand national narrative (a cinematic historiography), but also a national subjectivity based on the intersection of gendered and sexual citizenship (the politics of visibility).

Research Keywords

South Korean film and media, gender and queer studies, archive and archival theory, canonicity, architecture and spatial theory, visual studies (body visibility), popular culture