Hieyoon Kim

Hieyoon Kim is an Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies at Brown University. Her first book, Celluloid Democracy: Cinema and Politics in Cold War South Korea (UC Press, 2023), examines how Korean filmmakers, distributors, and exhibitors reshaped cinema in radically empowering ways amid political turbulence from liberation through the decades of military rule (1945–1987). Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Asian Studies, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Feminist Media Histories, and Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory. She is currently completing her second book titled Hereness in Twenty-First Century Audiovisual Media: The 1980 Gwangju Uprising Made Present.