Essays on Kino

Rubbish in Design

INTRODUCTION The question of rubbish in design has assumed increasing significance in recent years. The late modernity in artistic expression, particularly in design, has made a strong case of incorporating everyday elements into different artistic expressions including, most notably, painting, sculpture, photography and installations. In so doing, artistic expression has metamorphosed from a rather distanced engagement in "mundane" (made into loftier expressions by professional artistic design) into an actual immersion into day-to-day actualities in order to render "real" objects in different kaleidoscopic representations, particularly in still and video installations. The emergence of rubbish (assuming "rubbish" is disposable objects ridded ...

Shinpa melodrama, now known today as outmoded or overdramatic pieces of media, actually remain one of the most important media and art forms in Korea, despite (or perhaps because of) their importance. Shinpa is defined as "New Theater", and was imported from the Japanese style of theater troupes, which provided filmed scenes along with sad, overly emotional stories. These stories consist of tear-jerking, highly emotional stories that typically involve romantic or familial relationships, but with an incredible amount of intensity and drama to them. At first, when the Japanese form of melodrama arrived in Korea at the turn of ...

In Korean films, the term shinpa pertains to second-class melodramas. Shinpa originated in Japan and the shinpa casts headed by Im Sung-ku, Kim Do-san and Lee Ki-se created versions of Japanese plays. These shinpa casts started film making in colonial Korea with kino-dramas which combined stage plays with filmed scenes (Lee 37). Japanese melodramas led Koreans to find out Korean cultural emotions. The genre became widespread that in the 1980s it was nearly impossible to come across a director who did not make any shinpa-style melodramas. Other genres of Korean films also used melodrama and also applied the pattern of ...