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U. of I. scholar awarded research grant by South Korean film council
Andrea
Lynn, Humanities Editor
217-333-2177; andreal@uiuc.edu
6/14/2006
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. —
Frances Gateward, a professor in the African
American Studies and Research Program, the Center
for East Asian and Pacific Studies, and the Unit
for Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
has been awarded an overseas research grant from the Korean Film Council
in Seoul, South Korea.
Her winning project is titled “A Critical Filmography of World
Cinema – Korea.” Gateward’s proposal was one of only
three to be selected in the international competition.
The volume she produces as a result of her research grant will be her
second book-length project on the national cinema of Korea. Her anthology
“Seoul Searching: Culture and Identity in Contemporary Korean
Cinema” is forthcoming from SUNY Press.
The Critical Filmographies of World Cinema series recounts national
film histories through the various countries’ films themselves.
The initial volumes will be devoted to the film histories of China,
Cuba, Hungary, India, Iran, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Taiwan, and the Czech
and Slovak republics. The series is being published by caboose, a small
Canadian publisher in Montreal that is devoted to books about film.
The Korean Film Council was founded in 1973 as a government-supported
body to improve the quality of Korean films and to promote the Korean
film industry.
