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Chapter 6, ‘The Bordwell Regime: “A Different Kind of Fun”’, examines the main activity of Cinepol: film study. The group’s approach to the study of film was largely inherited from the 1990s, with the members referring to the same classical American textbook, Film Art: An Introduction by David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson, used by their predecessors. Of interest in this chapter is how Cinepol used Film Art to develop a style of analysis and discourse that then became a hallmark of what it means to be a member in practice within this group. As these time-poor students devoted themselves to the task of mastering film theory that is unlikely to help them in the job market, they experienced what a student described as ‘a different kind of fun’.
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Sohn, J.J.Y. (2022). The Bordwell Regime: ‘A Different Kind of Fun’. In: Campus Cinephilia in Neoliberal South Korea. East Asian Popular Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95143-6_6
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