The Bloomsbury Handbook of North Korean Cinema (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9798765102824)

Travis Workman is Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA. He is the author of Political Moods: Film Melodrama and the Cold War in the Two Korea (2023) and Imperial Genus: The Formation and Limits of the Human in Modern Korea and Japan (2016). He is currently working on debt, neo-feudal economies, and contemporary media.

Dong Hoon Kim is Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema Studies at the University of Oregon, USA. His research and teaching interests include visual culture, early cinema, animation, film and media spectatorship, and East Asian film, media, and popular culture. Kim is the author of Eclipsed Cinema: The Film Culture of Colonial Korea (2017).

Immanuel Kim is the Korea Foundation and Kim Renaud Professor of Korean literature and culture studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the George Washington University, USA. He is a specialist in North Korean literature, cinema, and culture. His first book Rewriting Revolution (2018) explores the complex and dynamic literary culture, and his second book Laughing North Koreans (2020) is on the ways in which humor has been an integral component of everyday life.