Staff profiles
Dr Chi-Yun Shin
PhD, Senior lecturer in film studies
Phone 0114 225 2742
E-mail c.y.shin@shu.ac.uk
Research interests/current work
My PhD thesis, titled 'Diaspora and Cinematic Formations: 'Black' British Cinema of the 1980s and 1990s', examined Black British and British Asian film-making practices as post-national 'hybrid' cinemas, and look at how they challenge conceptions of British cultural identity. In it, I undertook detailed research into the institutional backgrounds of 'black' British film-making, especially the important relationship between independent film movements and UK television companies.
My more recent research interests are on contemporary East Asian Cinema (Chinese, Japanese and South Korean cinemas), and I am currently putting proposals together for a monograph on Contemporary South Korean Film Directors and an anthology on Asian noir.
Research outputs since 2001
- New Korean Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2005), co-edited with Julian Stringer (University of Nottingham)
- 'Reclaiming the Corporeal: The Black Male Body and the 'Racial' Mountain in Looking for Langston', Paragraph, Vol. 26, Nos, 1and2 (2003)
- 'Storm the Big Screen: The Shiri Syndrome', chapter in Frances Gateward (ed.), Seoul Searching: Identity and Culture in Korean Cinema, New York: State University of New York Press (forthcoming). *co-written with Julian Stringer (University of Nottingham)
- 'Two of a Kind: Gender and Friendship in 'Friend' and 'Take Care of My Cat', chapter in Chi-Yun Shin and Julian Stringer (eds.), New Korean Cinema, (Edinburgh University Press, 2005)
